Word: schine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the nation's Selective Service director, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, showed up and was asked to pose for a picture with Lieut. Cohn, the general, possibly recalling the sad consequences which overtook Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens after he obligingly posed with Army Private G. David Schine, retorted with a stiff, military "Hell, no!" Swinging down into the U.S. after a three-week royal tour of Canada, Britain's handsome Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, 17, set Manhattan hostesses' knees trembling to curtsy, boards ready to groan. But the Duchess, whose...
Both reports agreed that G. David Schine's contribution as a "consultant" to McCarthy's Communist-hunting committee was negligible, and, therefore, as the Democratic report was at pains to emphasize, efforts to spring him from Army duty were unjustified. Both reports, despite their tonal distinctions, agreed that McCarthy himself was to blame for not putting the brakes on Roy Cohn's efforts to get favors for his friend Schine...
...Cohn "used the full power of his position . . . to obtain preferential treatment for [Schine] . . . Mr. Cohn was unrelenting to the point of harassment to give impetus to his requests in behalf of Mr. Schine . . . His unreasonableness in the matter of the concessions he asked for Mr. Schine was conceded by [McCarthy...
...suggested bewilderment. He did not grasp the far-reaching and deleterious effects of such indecision on Army personnel . . . Vacillation and appeasement were evident in many of his actions . . . He harbored the hope that termination of investigation of [the Army] could be accomplished by this method . . . The problem of Mr. Schine should not have been permitted to go beyond preliminary examination of Mr. Schine's qualifications, or lack thereof, and a firm decision based on established regulations...
...finally written, if there is such a thing as a medal for "distinguished political disservice," it might be awarded to the members of the White House staff and the Administration offi cials who thought up the bright idea of a public fight with McCarthy by means of the Cohn-Schine trivialities...