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...Army, and I'm sure he wants to serve as a private. That's the kind of guy he is."Schine's most famous exploit while with the McCarthy Committee as an unpaid consultant was his trip to Europe with Chief Counsel Roy Cohn to investigate the United States Information Service and the Voice of America. For this trip they were labeled "Junketeering gumshoes" by Theodore Khagan. The two are shown above during their visit to Rome...
Braucher said Secretary Stevens had left an impression of cander rather than evasiveness. "How can a man answer yes or no to 25 questions all at once?" he asked. "Cohn, Adams, and McCarthy all seem to be making arguments from the witness stand, while Stevens seems to be trying sincerely to reveal the facts. "I'll bet my marbles on a witness like Stevens," he added...
...some ways this may seem unfair to the Army. From the beginning, when interest was at its peak, Secretary Stevens was subjected to endless cross-examination by McCarthy. According to the Committee's ground rules, Army counsel Sherman Adams must take the stand next. Thus, long before McCarthy and Cohn testify, the hearings will have lost much of their novelty to many viewers. But to change the order of witnesses, the Committee would again have to compromise with McCarthy, and any such compromise would only strengthen his position. The Senator must face the same cross-examination on the stand that...
...questions to the charges made against McCarthy's staff director, Francis Carr, who had also been accused by the Army of intervening on Schine's behalf. In reply to Mundt, Stevens said Carr had not sought preferential treatment for Schine to nearly the extent that Roy Cohn had. Stevens concluded: "I think Mr. Carr might have been a little more active in trying to stop some of the conversations that went on, and he did not do that...
...crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee's angry man; Senator Mundt, jowls aquiver, chugging at his pipe; Counsel...