Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief counsel, R. M. Cohn, as well as other members of its staff, sought by improper means to obtain preferential treatment for one Pvt. G. David Schine." It repeated much of the story told last month in the Army's report on favor-seeking for Private Gerard David Schine and added a few new incidents. It grouped the Army's charges into 29 parts, which added up to an imposing portfolio of incidents and sequences of actions, including: ¶Demands that Private Schine be assigned to special work in New York: by Cohn, 8; by McCarthy...
...reference, of course, is to Gerard David Schine, U.S. Army private,* leading figure in the case of McCarthy v. the Army. Last week in Washington, a lot of politicians were trying to schine out of involvement in the case...
...nightclubbing. (Favorite haunt: the Stork Club's Cub Room.) At McCarthy's wedding last September, Cohn pushed Schine into a family wedding picture (much to Joe's annoyance). This idyllic state of gamboling was suddenly interrupted last summer by the harsh note of a bugle: Gerard David Schine was about to be drafted into the U.S. Army...
Army Recruit G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 26, heir to a string of seven hotels but better known as investigator for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, was himself under investigation by the Army. At New Jersey's Fort Dix, where Schine had eight weeks' indoctrination, the commandant ordered some 200 of Schine's old barracks buddies to be quizzed on the question of just how basic Soldier Schine's basic training had been. Charges filled the air that Schine had goldbricked his way through his rookie days. Fellow draftees were quoted as saying...
Fanfan the Tulip (Lopert). A French folk tale dressed up as hard-swaggering farce; with Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida (TIME...