Word: peress
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Army selected the easiest way out, decided to discharge Peress honorably within 90 days, unless he selected an earlier date. March 31 was selected as the discharge date...
...Senator McCarthy called Major Peress before a closed session in New York, and Peress invoked the Fifth Amendment, declining to answer 32 questions about Communist affiliation...
August. When the Peress file finally reached the Army Personnel Board in the Pentagon, he was sent an "interrogatory," citing the evidence against him and giving him a chance to reply. He wrote "Federal constitutional privilege" across the papers and mailed them back...
...Along with 7,000 other doctors and dentists, Peress was promoted under an amendment to the doctors' draft law calling for a general readjustment of grades based on a restudy of civilian medical experience. The Army's promotion hand did not seem to know or care that the Army's investigation hand was reaching for Peress' shoulder...
November-December. The personnel board decided that Peress should be separated from the Army. How should this be done? One way was to court-martial him. But for what? He had done nothing but invoke his constitutional privilege as regulations provided. (Earlier in the year, the Army had court-martialed Lieut. Sheppard Carl Thierman, a Brooklyn physician, in an almost identical case, and he was acquitted.) The second course was to grant Peress a discharge other than honorable, but Peress could have held this up as long as a year and might have prevented it. The third way out: give...