Word: peress
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...
...should refrain from your unflattering adjectives of the people you disagree with. I could give you a few for Mr. Stevens with his hedging on Peress and Mr.Welch playing to the audience for laughs...
...show. Robert T. Stevens. Secretary of the Army, was the principal witness of the first week. Stevens, a topflight businessman, found himself snarled in a dirty little fight where the fate of an Army private named G. David Schine and the fate of a New York dentist named Irving Peress somehow became high affairs of state. Senator McCarthy, ever the showman, gave televiewers their time's worth. A new character. Ray Jenkins, the committee's trap-jawed counsel, brought to the screen the forensic flamboyance of a Southern trial lawyer...
John Gibbons Adams, 42, Army Department counselor, was assigned by Stevens to work closely with McCarthy and Cohn during the Fort Monmouth investigation and the Peress case. Last month he drew up the Army's report on the Schine case...