Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inexcusable" Conduct. While the committee's first recommendation for censure concerned McCarthy as a minority member of the Senate, the second was a judgment of him as a committee chairman. The report's comments on the Zwicker case were a resounding blast at Chairman McCarthy's methods...
Pointedly noting that men who conduct congressional investigations are expected to "maintain high standards of fair and respectful treatment," the Watkins committee contrasted this principle with the McCarthy practice: "The conduct of Senator McCarthy toward General Zwicker was not proper. We do not think that this conduct would have been proper in the case of any witness, whether a general or a private citizen, testifying in a similar situation. Senator McCarthy knew . . . that General Zwicker had been directed by higher authority to issue an honorable discharge to Peress upon his application...
...third experience with a question of censure the U.S. Senate will have before it the exhaustive report of a Select Committee, clearly and firmly recommending censure. This will be documentation to support the resolution introduced by Vermont Republican Flanders: "Resolved, that the conduct of the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, is unbecoming a member of the U.S. Senate, is contrary to senatorial traditions and tends to bring the Senate into disrepute, and such conduct is hereby condemned...
...leadership tends to be confused with and contaminated by the conduct of Senator McCarthy. A large part of this identification can be credited to the fact that European democrats, inevitably thinking in terms of parliamentary government, have only the dimmest understanding of the U.S. separation of executive and legislative powers. Their lack of instruction is scarcely the fault of Senator McCarthy-or President Eisenhower-but the effect is not mitigated by this. The effect is that the President and the anti-McCarthy Republicans quite often seem to horrified European onlookers like rabbits transfixed by the headlights of an onrushing truck...
More than 300 of the 3,322 captured Americans back from Korea have been accused of wrongful conduct during their ordeal as prisoners.* Last week, in deciding one case, the Army drew a clear line between pardonable and punishable conduct while in Red hands. The accused: Lieut. Colonel Harry Fleming, 46, the first American officer ever court-martialed for collaborating with his captors...