Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mudball. The battle had only begun. Joe McCarthy, one of the great mudslingers of his day, rose in the Senate: with a fiercely patriotic air that Henry Clay might have envied (though almost all the seats were empty), he let Pearson have it. The first 17 pages of his typed script were devoted to quotes from 44 people (including Presidents Roosevelt and Truman) who had called Pearson a liar...
After this, the Senator wound up and fogged in his big mudball: Pearson was not only a "greedy, degenerate liar" with a "perverted mentality" but was also a tool of Moscow, fiendishly intent on destroying "the very heart of this Republic." Pearson, he said, was not a card-carrying party member, but he got secret orders from the Reds through an associate, David Karr, whom McCarthy identified as a former writer for the Communist Daily Worker. Furthermore, he cried, Columnist Pearson had been assigned the job of ruining General Douglas MacArthur...
...Pearson, a $300,000-a-year capitalist type with a clear anti-Communist record, was thrown on the defensive in this headbutting session, if only because it seemed to make his $5,000-a-week radio sponsor, Adam Hats, slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel...
Cease-fire Commissioners Rau, Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...
...Doctrine. Meanwhile, the ceasefire commissioners-Iran's suave Nasrollah Entezam (Assembly President), Canada's hopeful Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson and India's indefatigable Rau-promptly began work. They spent 2½ hours with U.S. representatives. Red China's Wu refused to meet them. On Saturday, at a press conference attended by 75 newsmen, Wu gave Peking's answer: no ceasefire...