Word: peress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaire Schine hotel family. Army Draftee Schine, Joe charged, was being used by the Army as a hostage to keep the McCarthy committee from finding out, among other things, why a brigadier general named Ralph Zwicker had permitted the honorable discharge of a Red-tinted Army dentist named Irving Peress. For 36 days televised hearings made Joe's nasal rhythms, his low-pitched interruptions, his trademark phrases the stock of every mimic in the nation...
...insistence, the committee summoned General Zwicker back from Japan to defend himself on charges made by his old antagonist at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Gist of the charges: Zwicker had "clearly lied" to the McCarthy investigations subcommittee about the circumstances leading to the promotion of Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized the New York Times: "The action is only the most recent indication of the contempt in which...
...content to stand on General Stratemeyer's recent statement that this is blaming a mistake on a dead man not in a position to reply. Nobody that I know denies somebody in the Pentagon released it, probably due to a snafu' reminiscent of "Who Promoted Peress?" ANSEL EDWARD TALBERT Military and Aviation Editor New York Herald Tribune New York City...
...coordination, ineffective administrative procedures, inconsistent application of investigating regulations, and excessive delays," were the subcommittee's words for it. Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (or his Defense Department superiors), said the report, should be "criticized for the delay of almost one year before the facts concerning the Peress case were publicly released." It added that former Army Counselor John Adams showed "disrespect for this subcommittee" when he chose to disregard a request from Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy that Peress' discharge be held up. Then the subcommittee listed 48 instances of snarled red tape...
...subcommittee, including McCarthy, signed the report. But Ohio Republican George Bender, who holds the Senate seat previously occupied by Robert Taft, refused. The subcommittee, Bender pointed out, had found nothing to substantiate Joe McCarthy's screams that "a secret master" of the Pentagon had controlled the Peress case. The report, said Bender, should have spelled out the obvious fact that "not one iota of evidence was revealed to indicate any subversion, collusion, or Communist conspiracy concerned with the handling by the military of the Peress matter...