Word: dexterousness
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...cease and desist" orders to his White House staff, and there were signs that the loudest G.O.P. talkers would keep on talking. Attorney General Herbert Brownell got a big laugh in Boston by flipping: "If this weren't be-kind-to-Democrats week, I might talk about Harry Dexter White." In San Mateo, Calif., Joe McCarthy said he had "no plans for a major change in my line of speeches." (The line: the nation has just survived "20 years of treason.") And in Jeffersonville, Indiana's Bill Jenner went even further beyond the limit. He said that...
...swung west to his climactic dates in Los Angeles and Dallas this week, he was talking about himself, making it clear all along the way that he is trying to make McCarthy the key to the 1954 elections, just as he had promised he would, in his Harry Dexter White speech last November...
...passed secret documents to her to be sent on to Moscow. But when Halperin took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment before the Jenner Committee last March, the university refused to fire him. Reason for its decision: lack of "definite evidence." Not until Attorney General Herbert Brownell brought the Harry Dexter White case out in the open did B.U. finally decide to suspend Halperin...
...discussion of national affairs, Dever strongly attacked Attorney-General Brownell for his role in the Harry Dexter...
...Attorney General merely recited the cold, indisputable facts surrounding Harry Dexter White (Harvard PhD '30),--facts which were verified in full by J. Edgar Hoover as well as by one of Sparkman's own fellow Southern Democrats. If Brownell's truthful account of the White case happens to conjure up in Sparkman's mind the picture of a thief taking even such an innocent item as a poor little chicken, well, then it's just too bad about the honorable gentleman from Alabama...