Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee decided to settle the controversy by investigating I) the Army's investigation of Roy Conn's activities on behalf of Schine, and 2) McCarthy's countercharges. McCarthy stepped down as chairman, freely admitting that he had "prejudged" the case since he had questioned Cohn and was "fully satisfied" that no "unfair influence" had been used. South Dakota's amiable, rotund Karl Mundt reluctantly accepted an "unwelcome promotion" to the chair after failing to persuade the Armed Services Committee that it should arbitrate the incendiary political dilemma...
Mundt's inquiry, the committee decided, will be "to the exclusion of all other hearings," i.e., McCarthy may not begin new probes until the committee has finished scrutinizing his own activities. Senator McCarthy, declining to disqualify himself completely, will continue as a committee member; and Counsel Cohn, though removed from any part in the proceedings except as a witness, will continue on the committee's payroll...
...Then he and Arkansas' John McClellan, the committee's senior Democrat, hoping at least to move the brawl off the political street corner and into the controlled conditions of the rope-bound ring, set about finding a referee-a fair-minded lawyer with unassailable reputation to take Cohn's place as chief counsel. As the search went on, Joe McCarthy headed for Chicago...
...Patrick's Day dinner, McCarthy took his cue from the toastmaster, who said the Senator was driving the snakes from America. McCarthy snorted: "The snakes didn't like St. Patrick's methods, and the Communists don't like mine." Fighting to divert attention from Cohn and Schine, whom he did not mention, McCarthy blasted out at various villains whom he identified as "eggheads," "deluded liberals," "the left-wing press," "the jackal pack," "Pentagon politicians...
...Murrow devoted most of his show to a film report of the appearance of Annie Lee Moss before the McCarthy committee. It was nearly as devastating an indictment as the previous show, especially since it pictured McCarthy decamping from an unfavorable situation and leaving his harried counsel, Roy Cohn, to deal ineptly with the aroused Democratic members of the committee, who clearly felt that the accused witness was getting a raw deal (TIME, March...