Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Junketeering Gumshoes. In February 1953, Dave went to work for Roy on the McCarthy committee staff as an unpaid consultant on psychological warfare. Two months later, the team of Cohn & Schine got top billing on two continents as they breezed through U.S. Information Service posts in Europe in 18 days, "to see if there's waste and mismanagement and to pin down responsibility...
Their trip was an outrageously brash performance, but it got results of a sort. In Frankfurt, Cohn charged that Theodore Kaghan, in the U.S. High Commissioner's Public Affairs Division, had "once signed a Communist Party petition." Kaghan jeered at Cohn & Schine as "junketeering gumshoes." Two weeks later, Kaghan was called home by the State Department and fired...
...Dave. They would fly down to Washington from New York on Monday, take adjoining rooms at the Statler Hotel for the week, then fly back on Friday night for a weekend of nightclubbing. (Favorite haunt: the Stork Club's Cub Room.) At McCarthy's wedding last September, Cohn pushed Schine into a family wedding picture (much to Joe's annoyance). This idyllic state of gamboling was suddenly interrupted last summer by the harsh note of a bugle: Gerard David Schine was about to be drafted into the U.S. Army...
...Light. What happened next has now largely been told in biting bureaucratese in the Army's report released last week (see box). Roy Cohn accepted Dave Schine's draft as a personal challenge. He enlisted McCarthy's aid in trying to get Schine a commission. When this failed, Roy personally extended the long arm of the U.S. Senate to protect Dave during his enlisted service...
...McCarthy, in Roy Cohn's presence, or after a session with Cohn, sang an entirely different tune. The implication was embarrassingly clear that, if the Army report was accurate, Kingmaker Roy Cohn had arrived at a new dimension of influence...