Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then head of the Student Employment Agency of Princeton, was delegated to pressure Congress for revision of this part of the tax law. With heavy Harvard backing, Morgan called up an old friend whom he had met when he was mayor of Princeton--Congressman Charles L. Howell, of New Jersey...
...recommended that McCarthy be censured by the Senate on two counts: ¶ He had been contemptuous of, and had obstructed, the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, which in 1951-52 had attempted to investigate him; he had denounced, "without reason or justification," a member of that subcommittee, New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert C. Hendrickson...
Here, the Watkins committee paused to take particular note of McCarthy's denunciation of New Jersey's Senator Hendrickson, a member of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee. When he learned that Republican Hendrickson had joined Democrats Thomas Hennings of Missouri and Carl Hayden of Arizona in signing the report, McCarthy snarled that the New Jersey Senator was "a living miracle, in that he is without question the only man in the world who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts...
...point, Schlesinger said, "For Democrats to make concessions because the press is hostile to them is to be disloyal to the Democratic party. Hope lies in the fearless, courageous leadership of various state leaders like Averell Harriman in New York, Ed Muskie in Maine, Bob Meyner in New Jersey, and Mennen Williams in Michigan...
Meanwhile, the Justice Department is using it as a sharp new weapon in the Administration's war on Communism. Last week word leaked out that the Department had called twelve witnesses before grand juries in the District of Columbia and in New Jersey-including Mary Price, onetime secretary of Columnist Walter Lippmann; Edward J. Fitzgerald, onetime War Production Board economist, and Harold Glasser, onetime Treasury Department associate of the late Harry Dexter White. The main purpose is to get more information about Soviet spy networks, past and present. Some of these witnesses may refuse to answer, trusting that...