Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morris turned beet-red, removed his "Keep Your Shirt On" sign. "Excuse me," he shouted. "You've knocked off a lot of characters before, but you're not going to knock mine off."
Mental Brutality? As the session drew to its close, Morris blew up with a bang. "Down here in Washington," he said, "you've created an atmosphere so vile that people have lost confidence in their Government . . . I don't think that any man with red blood in his...
At another point, Morris reached the depths of public self-pity with this:
"It [McCarthy's questioning] is very similar to what they did to Cardinal Mindszenty, what the Hungarian Communists did. Gradually, you can wear a witness down. That is what you call mental brutality." Later, Morris, his lips trembling with emotion, repeated his speech on TV.
When Morris ducked questions about his personal business, the committee pointed out that Morris, in his capacity as investigator, had sent out 25,000 questionnaires asking Government employees searching questions about their personal business.