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...Senate Investigations subcommittee. For 20 minutes the photographers and newsreel cameramen hovered around him. He smiled a relaxed smile for the lenses, his broad Irish face showing few signs of his 49 years, except for an accordion-like rippling of chins. North Carolina's pale old Senator Clyde Hoey, Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, arrived promptly at hearing time, smiling and looking more than ever like Arthur Train's unforgettable Mr. Tutt in his dark frock coat and customary red boutonniere. Arkansas Democrat John McClellan waved a friendly greeting to Boyle before taking his seat, and Boyle gaily...
McCarthy the investigator took his place in the Senate hearing room where the Hoey subcommittee, of which he is a member, grilled Bill Boyle. McCarthy was stern with witnesses. "Don't be coy with me," he snapped at Boyle's friend Max Siskind. But in mid-session, McCarthy had to leave. "I happen to be testifying myself," he explained...
Last week, a Senate investigating committee resurrected the case of Alfred Redl as an object lesson for the U.S. For 27 weeks, North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, with three other Democratic Senators and three Republicans, had been quietly looking into a sordid matter: the problem of homosexuals in the Government. The problem had been the subject of nervous explanations, joke-cracking and effective campaign sneers ever since last February, when Deputy Under Secretary of State John Peurifoy offhandedly told Congress that State had gotten rid of 91 employees for homosexuality...
Firings & Hirings. Senator Hoey's investigators had compiled a shocking history. They had found a record of homosexuality or other sexual perversions among workers in 36 of 53 branches of Government, as well as in the armed forces. Between Jan. 1, 1947 and last April, 4,954 cases had come to light among some three and a half million people in Government service. Most were in the armed services, which are far larger than civilian Government departments and traditionally aggressive at searching out perverts...
...Senate's inquiries into the activities of Washington five per centers probably will not be resumed this year, Senator Clyde Hoey (D-N.C.) said yesterday. Hoey, who heads the investigating sub-committee, said that only unexpected developments would reopen hearings this year...