Word: peress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reviewing the case of Major Irving Peress, Welch raked McCarthy, saying, "All he did was wave a bloody shirt." He emphasized that there was no law to prevent Peress from getting an honorable discharge at the time he received it. Concluding, Welch refused to discuss the Watkins' committee hearings. "I'll let it speak for itself," he said...
First, the committee carefully outlined the history of the Zwicker incident. In New York last February, McCarthy called General Zwicker to testify about the case of Major Irving Peress, the drafted dentist who was promoted and finally given an honorable discharge, although he had refused to sign loyalty forms. Zwicker, commander of the separation center where Peress was discharged, pointed out that a presidential directive prohibited him from revealing some details of such an Army loyalty case. At that, McCarthy became furious, roared that Zwicker should "be removed from any command," was "not fit to wear that uniform...
...proper. We do not think that this conduct would have been proper in the case of any witness, whether a general or a private citizen, testifying in a similar situation. Senator McCarthy knew . . . that General Zwicker had been directed by higher authority to issue an honorable discharge to Peress upon his application...
...membership in Harvard's branches of the services expect certain uncivilian demands, such as compulsory saluting and drilling, the certificate represents no great imposition. But following McCarthy's loud and irresponsible charges, this type of security measure smacks mostly of kow-towing and closing the barn door after the Peress has gotten...
Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, toastmaster and prime organizer of the $7-a-plate dinner, gave Cohn the first plaque. Then, in rapid order, Lawyer Cohn got six scrolls, three more plaques and a paperweight from as many organizations, including the "Anti-Peress Group of the P.T.A. of P.S. 49." Bellows of hoarse approval went up as Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky attacked "senile" Senators. Fulton Lewis Jr., an "I'm for McCarthy" badge decorating his lapel, criticized his fellow newspapermen for their lack of objectivity about McCarthy. Then Archibald Roosevelt, Teddy's son, led the crowd in booing...