Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owen Lattimore's turn to answer Wisconsin's blustering Joseph McCarthy, and the Senate's big caucus room was packed to capacity. A short, mild-looking man with a scraggly sandy mustache, Professor (Johns Hopkins) Lattimore settled himself down at the microphones at one end of a T-shaped table, plumped down a fat, 42-page statement in front of him, adjusted his spectacles. Then he fixed a cold eye on his accuser, who smiled indulgently on him from the ranks of distinguished visitors behind the committee table...
McCarthy had promised to stand or fall on his case against Owen Lattimore, and he clearly had little left to stand...
...most unfortunate aspects of Senator Joseph McCarthy's scratchings at the State Department has been the far too ready acceptance of one of his standards for condemning people. The Senator outlined this standard on March 30, when, in talking about Owen Lattimore, he said: "the all important thing to be determined is not so much whether Lattimore was a Russian Agent. . . but to what extent our far eastern policy (as influenced by Lattimore) has paralleled the Communist Party objectives. . . the Lattimore line follows that line practically 100 percent...
...David Owen, United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Affairs, has cancelled his two talks at the University that were scheduled for today, because of commitments at Lake Success...
...Owen was to have spoken at 8 p.m. tonight in Littauer on the UN and Point Four. He was also to have addressed a faculty luncheon earlier...