Word: peress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While signs multiplied that the anti-Communist alliance was under heavy strain, the U.S. public was hardly aware of the danger. Thanks to Joe McCarthy, it was concentrating on the case of a New York dentist named Irving Peress. The Big Sag was caused in part by the Big Wind from Wisconsin...
...York City Policewoman Ruth Eagle appeared as a witness before McCarthy, an unruffled chairman despite a traffic accident the night before.* Policewoman Eagle, who was assigned to join the Communist Party and was shot at when Communists discovered her police connection, testified that she had known Dr. Irving Peress and his wife as "full-fledged members" of the Communist Party, had sat with them in party cell meetings. Then Dentist Peress took the witness stand and refused, on the ground of selfincrimination, to answer 33 questions relating to Communist activity...
Caught by the doctors' draft in the fall of 1952, Peress was commissioned, no questions asked. When an Army officers' loyalty questionnaire was sent to him, Peress refused to fill it out. While one arm of the Army was investigating him, another arm gave Peress a routine promotion to major. Last Jan. 18 the Army ordered Major Peress, then stationed at Camp Kilmer, N.J., to be honorably discharged within three months. On Jan. 30, McCarthy grilled him in secret session. Peress refused to answer, pleading the Fifth Amendment. Three days later he was a civilian with an honorable...
Before Zwicker testified, Stevens had sent McCarthy a letter saying "We do not defend" the Army's performance in the Peress case, and promising there would be no more such cases. But the letter failed to convince Joe McCarthy that "disgraceful coddling of Communists" in the Army had ended. Said Joe: "I don't think Bob wrote that letter. He was either badly advised or someone wrote it for him-some hungover press-agent." Later Joe elaborated: He had meant "hangover pressagent from the last Administration." With that, the Senator entrained for Albany to keep another date...