Word: documented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short Walk. Try as he might to be the old McCarthy, Joe could not seem to escape the spell of the cold eye. At one point he was arguing that the committee should accept in evidence the notorious 2¼ page summary of an FBI document (which Joe had produced at the Army-McCarthy hearing-TIME, May 17). North Carolina's Sam Ervin interrupted him in midsentence. "May I finish, please?" McCarthy asked Chairman Watkins. Watkins replied bluntly: "You may when Senator Ervin has stated his position." "O.K.," snapped...
...document the charge that McCarthy was in contempt of the Gillette-Hennings subcommittee, which investigated him in 1951-52, Chadwick read the extensive correspondence to and from Joe. Time after time, the subcommittee invited McCarthy to appear before it; time after time, Joe refused, accusing the subcommittee of such things as "picking the pockets of the taxpayers and turning the loot over to the Democratic National Committee." lawyer Williams argued that, even if the charge were true, it does not now constitute grounds for censuring McCarthy. Said Chairman Watkins: "We do not agree with you. And that is obvious...
...Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief that contained less than 450 pages...
Three hours later Mendès was back. He reported to Molotov that the U.S. would refuse to sign the same document as Red China, but would issue a unilateral declaration stating that the U.S. would take a serious view of any violation of an agreed armistice. Molotov accepted this formula with only faint protest. "Ouf!" exclaimed Mendès in relief...
...This pastoral letter ... is a document of great importance . . . We do not recall another Roman Church document addressed primarily to Americans which equals this in its aggressive declaration of the papal claims," said the Century. Perhaps, it added, it indicates that the Vatican is beginning to "view with alarm the growing strength of the ecumenical movement. There was no such cracking of the disciplinary whip at the time of the Amsterdam Assembly [1948] . . . The Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva went out of his way to express his good will . . . and the Catholic bishops in Holland approved prayers for its success...