Word: peress
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...