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Word: handmaidens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...released his "handmaiden" speech to the press, but cited lack of time as his reason for not making it to the Senate. "There was a shortage of speakers," said Watkins. "At one stage it seemed that we were about ready for a vote on the first amendment because there were no speakers; yet here was a man who told the press he was going to make a speech ... I cannot say that he was afraid to face us, but the facts are there, and we can take notice of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...long years in politics, Committee Member Ed Johnson has been called many things. But when he heard of McCarthy's statement, Colorado's tough, burly Johnson gruffed: "This is the first time I've ever been called a handmaiden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Handmaidens | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...session ended with McCarthy deciding he did not have time to deliver his "handmaiden" speech. The Wisconsin Senator's decision pointed up the fact that he was not really trying to impress the Senate, but to grab the headlines and stir dissension. Leaving the Senate floor that afternoon, McCarthy Lawyer Edward Williams was asked by a newsman: "Ed, your boy sure isn't trying to win friends and influence people, is he?" Replied Williams, wearily: "That's one book Joe didn't write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Handmaidens | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...Wisconsin Senator's conduct "must be condemned," said Stennis. He called McCarthy's handmaiden speech "a continuation of the slush and slime." It was, he said, "another spot on the escutcheon of the Senate, another splash and splatter." Many more words would be uttered before the debate ended, but quiet John Stennis focused the issue clearly when he said that unless the Senate cen sures McCarthy "something big and fine will have gone from this chamber . . . something wrong will have entered and been accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Handmaidens | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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