Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
...suspicion of disloyalty. Their courage and their devotion have been proved in peace as well as on the battlefields of war." Specifically included in the President's tribute was the immediate target of McCarthy's wrath-Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker, commander at Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Dentist Peress was stationed...
While signs multiplied that the anti-Communist alliance was under heavy strain, the U.S. public was hardly aware of the danger. Thanks to Joe McCarthy, it was concentrating on the case of a New York dentist named Irving Peress. The Big Sag was caused in part by the Big Wind from Wisconsin...
...Peress, a New York City dentist, was commissioned as an Army Reserve captain under the doctors' draft...
...before.* Policewoman Eagle, who was assigned to join the Communist Party and was shot at when Communists discovered her police connection, testified that she had known Dr. Irving Peress and his wife as "full-fledged members" of the Communist Party, had sat with them in party cell meetings. Then Dentist Peress took the witness stand and refused, on the ground of selfincrimination, to answer 33 questions relating to Communist activity...