Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cohn's snarl and Schine's lurking smirk qualify them for Madame Tussaud's . . . Sad, sad days are these, when Ike, Dulles, Wilson et al. hide while two juvenile delinquents such as these ride...
...young, previously unknown employee of a subcommittee of Congress can intimidate the whole Army from the Secretary down, and attempt to dictate what they are to do with one particular draftee, is incredible ! . . . Isn't there anyone in the Army of sufficient intestinal fortitude to have told Cohn to go peddle his papers...
...fairness to Joe, he even now doesn't appear to have made anything more than a cursory, routine request for a commission for Schine. The loud noises and irresponsible threats emanate from one source-Roy Cohn. McCarthy appears in this instance to be guilty, at most, of misplaced confidence and excessive delegation of authority...
Senator McCarthy has always been fond of the word "whitewash." When the Tydings Committee showed there was no basis for his charge that there were 205 Communists in the State Department, he dismissed the whole thing as a deliberate whitewash. But now, it seems that Roy Cohn and the Senator himself will get the same treatment from their own committee...
...affair of Roy Cohn vs. the United States Army first began to assume the aspects of a farce when it was announced that McCarthy's committee, temporarily headed by Senator Mundt, would investigate its chairman. But Mundt assured the nation that justice would be carried out, that the committee would hire a counsel who had a proven record of impartiality, and who had never before taken part in a major government investigation. Senator Mundt played his hand carefully. Instead of starting the investigation immediately, when public opinion was strongly in favor of the Army, he waited two weeks...