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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of Fulbright fellowships first came prominently to McCarthy's attention in June of 1953 when Professor Napthali Lewis of Brooklyn College and his wife both appeared as witnesses before a New York session of the Senate Permanent Investigating sub-committee, of which McCarthy was then the sole member. Several months before, Lewis, a professor of Classical Languages at Brooklyn College, had been awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Italy during the academic year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy Levels Attack At Fulbright Aid Grants | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

Terming the holder of a Fulbright grant "an ambassador of good will," McCarthy then asked Lewis whether the United States government should not award the grants to "other ambassadors of good will whose wives don't refuse to answer questions as to whether they belong to the Communist Party or refuse to give information to the F.B.I. about members of the Communist Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy Levels Attack At Fulbright Aid Grants | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...statement later, Lewis denounced McCarthy's questioning as an "inquisition." He appears to be interested in my Fulbright Award only to the extent of inquiring into my political opinions and what is even more astonishing, into my wife's politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy Levels Attack At Fulbright Aid Grants | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

That afternoon McCarthy announced with evident satisfaction that the State Department had officially withdrawn the Fulbright grant from Lewis. "I think it (the cancellation) is an excellent idea," said the Senator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy Levels Attack At Fulbright Aid Grants | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...month later in a Senate committee hearing, McCarthy became embroiled in a vigorous argument over the grants with Senator J. William Fulbright, author of the act which established the fellowships. While Fulbright agreed that admitted Communists should not receive the grants, he struck back at McCarthy with the statement "I can well imagine intelligent people refusing to answer because they have been the object of indignity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy Levels Attack At Fulbright Aid Grants | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

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