Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Necessary Restraint. Occasionally, the rudderless hearings drifted near to the heart of the matter. Time & again, McCarthy tried to get Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens to answer yes or no to the question: Did he try to get McCarthy to call off the hearings an security risks at Fort Monmouth, N.J.? Time & again, Stevens made a sound distinction: "I wanted to have the type of hearing that you were conducting suspended . . . If you had held the type of hearing which would have given the American people ... a more accurate evaluation of what the situation was at Fort Monmouth...
Gerard David Schine, 27, private, U.S. Army Military Police, was transferred last week from Camp Gordon, Ga. to Fort Myer, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, to be available for the great investigation, whose central question is: Did McCarthy threaten to blackmail the Army on Schine's behalf or did the Army threaten to use Schine as its blackmail weapon against McCarthy? When newsmen spotted Schine in the Senate Office Building last week, he ignored their questions, bounded up a staircase, three steps at a stride...
John Gibbons Adams, 42, Army Department counselor, was assigned by Stevens to work closely with McCarthy and Cohn during the Fort Monmouth investigation and the Peress case. Last month he drew up the Army's report on the Schine case...
...Greatly Over-Exaggerated." After the McCarthy committee started its Fort Monmouth investigation, said Stevens, the Army suspended 29 employees from that establishment. Asked Jenkins: "Were there 29 suspensions as a result of the McCarthy investigation?" Said Stevens: "My answer to that would have to be no. Then I have to say 'but'-I think it is probably true that as a result of this committee's activities some of those suspensions took effect sooner than they otherwise would have." The exchange continued, rapid-fire...
Herbert Wells, 79, learned the fund-raising business as a partner in the pioneer firm of Ward, Wells and Dreshman, founded in Fort Worth in 1911. Son Lewis, 49, a wartime lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who had once thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister, set up his own firm in 1946, later decided to specialize in religious causes. That led to Wells Organizations...