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Among men who hate McCarthy most, none has been more outspoken than Herman ("Hank") Greenspun, 44, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 11,034). His fight with the Senator reached the boiling point in 1952 when McCarthy, speaking in Las Vegas, referred to Greenspun as a "confessed ex-Communist." At that Greenspun, who was in the audience, elbowed his way to the platform as McCarthy made for the exit. McCarthy later corrected himself: what he had meant to say was "ex-convict," for in 1950 Greenspun was convicted and fined $10,000 for violating the Neutrality Act by running...
Slobs & Simpletons. Last week in Las Vegas, a federal grand jury indicted Greenspun under the postal laws on charges of mailing ''matter of an indecent character, tending to incite murder or assassination." As evidence, the indictment quoted a Greenspun column of last January: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end. Huey Long's death will be serene and peaceful compared with the demise of the sadistic bum from Wisconsin. Live by the sword and you die by the sword. Destroy people and they in turn must destroy you. The chances are that McCarthy will...
...indictment, Publisher Greenspun could thank Joe McCarthy. Three months ago, McCarthy's office sent the Greenspun column to the Post Office Department and asked whether the paper should lose its second-class mailing privileges for violating postal regulations. Later, said Post Office Solicitor Abe McGregor Goff, the Senator called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last...
Attempt to Muzzle? Greenspun is a man who knows his way around a courtroom. A New York lawyer, Greenspun moved to Nevada in 1946, later became a pressagent for a Las Vegas gambling house. In 1950 he bought the Sun property, including $2,500 in cash assets, with a $1,000 down payment, then took off after Democratic Senator Pat McCarran. Last year Greenspun won an $80,000 out-of-court settlement from some local gambling houses when he sued on charges that McCarran had conspired with them to take their advertising out of the Sun (TIME...
...week's end, Publisher Greenspun, who faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine, seemed delighted by the indictment. He ran his January column all over again, charged that the indictment was "just another attempt to muzzle a newspaper which has been critical of McCarthy . . . McCarthy chose a column that was written facetiously ... to pressure the Postmaster General. Why didn't McCarthy make an issue of some of the serious, documented columns I have written about...