Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little disappointed to find [TIME, June 29] that only 22% of the U.S. public agrees with me that Joe McCarthy does more good than harm (which is more than I can say for a few other Congressmen). McCarthy is ... the only man to fight Communism with a little of the fanaticism that Communists themselves display...
...Gallup poll indicates that only 22% of the public interviewed think that McCarthy does more good than harm, then how come his smashing victory in Wisconsin, in spite of his inability to campaign against the whirlwind fight put up by his opponent and a number of Fair Deal orators? Was it this 22% that beat "Tydings, the Good" in Maryland? Must we finance British Socialism and pay more attention to their lords, dukes and sirs in the running of our affairs than we do to our own peoples' elected representatives...
...Endorsed (but not ratified) the Genocide Convention. Setting out to make mass murder an international crime (and it was a crime, whatever the U.N. might say or not say), a U.N. commission ended up with a complex document defining "genocide" to include "causing . . . mental harm" to members of "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Under such a far-afield provision, expressions of honest opinion might become crimes...
Turks, among others, stood out like medals of honor. But nothing did the U.N. more harm in the U.S. than the comparative figures of forces in Korea...
...think he does more good than harm are indebted to McCarthy for helping them to keep up with the news. The evidence of Communist influence (95% of which was drawn out by investigators other than McCarthy) was not very difficult to understand. But apparently millions did not understand it until McCarthy restated it (and often misstated it) for them...