Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cohn stayed in the Justice Department through the Truman Administration. Attorney General Herbert Brownell ignored his gambits for a better job there, so he turned to his many admirers on Capitol Hill. On January 14, 1953, Roy Cohn resigned from Justice to become chief counsel to McCarthy's subcommittee, at $11,700 a year...
...Great Treat." "Roy has deserved a spanking since he was a child," says an old friend of the Cohn family, "but I doubt if he ever got one in his whole life." Roy's father, Albert Cohn, is a judge in the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court, a onetime protege of the late Boss Ed Flynn, and a power in the Democratic Party. In his teens, Roy would amaze his friends by putting in a spur-of-the-moment telephone call to the mayor's office and talking briefly to "Bill" (O'Dwyer...
...Remington perjury trial, the Rosenberg trial and the big New York trial of top Communist leaders. He had also given auspicious evidence of a trait that still rankles his associates: contempt of all but the top boss. In 1950 his boss, U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, made 23year-old Roy Cohn his confidential as sistant...
...Cohn prepared the indictment of Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury, but his career in the Justice Department is best remembered for his testimony before a House subcommittee investigating the State and Justice Departments' foot-dragging in the investigation of U.S. Communists on the United Nations staff. Cohn blandly implied that most of his bosses had opposed him on making public the grand jury's findings. The subcommittee report exonerated Attorney General McGranery and his staff and noted, with an acuity remarkable in a public document: "Cohn left [the subcommittee] with the impression that he is an extremely...
Ingredient for Palship. Cohn's important Manhattan legal friends had been telling him for a long time that he should meet young David Schine, the son of J. Myer Schine, multimillionaire owner of a string of hotels and theaters. Cohn's old boss, Irving Saypol, got Dave and Roy together at a luncheon in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan in 1952. Dave Schine turned out to be a pleasant, articulate young man with the build and features of a junior-grade Greek god. The two 25-year-olds were soon cutting a wide swath through Manhattan...