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That afternoon North Carolina's Democratic Senator Samuel Ervin, another member of the censure committee, arose to speak. He recalled that McCarthy had accused him of bias and, as usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that...
Moral or Mental. Far from being biased, said Ervin, he "gave Senator McCarthy the benefit of all doubts, both reasonable and unreasonable." Then Ervin moved to another subject: the McCarthy speech (released to the press but never delivered on the Senate floor) calling the Watkins committee the "unwitting handmaiden" of the Communist Party. Said Ervin: "First, if Senator McCarthy made these fantastic and foul accusations against the members of the Select Committee without believing them to be true, he attempted to assassinate the character of these Senators, and ought to be expelled from membership in the Senate for moral incapacity...
...four senators, all elected to another term, are Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R, Mass.), Paul H. Douglas '16 (D, III.), Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. '21 (D, N. Car.), and Theodore F. Green, Law '92 (D, R.I.). John F. Kennedy '40 (D, Mass.), still has four more years in the Senate, making a total of five alumni in the upper house...
...North Carolina Democrat Samuel J. Ervin Jr., 58, twice-wounded veteran of World War I, a lawyer and former associate justice of his state's Supreme Court, who, in his 14 weeks as a Senator, has already reaped some criticism at home for voting too much like a Republican...
...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...