Word: schine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counsel Ray Jenkins: Do you recall that Mr. Stevens . . . swore under his oath . . . that you asked him to assign Dave Schine to the New York area...
McCarthy insisted that neither he nor his staff-including Roy Cohn-had used pressure to get Schine a special assignment. Why, then, asked Jenkins, had McCarthy cautioned the Army not to give Schine special treatment? Said Joe: the Army itself had, "on some instances," brought the Schine matter up. Another reason was that "the Communist liners started to loose their attack," charging McCarthy-Cohn intervention on Schine's behalf. The attacks, he recalled, came from Columnist Drew Pearson-"one of the greatest Communist-line smearers that I know"-and Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop...
...hand. What damage or good had they caused? The original charges and countercharges had become all but secondary issues, and, with the testimony largely in, they could easily be disposed of: CJ Did Senator McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, try to get favored treatment for Private David Schine? Despite McCarthy's denials (see above), most TV-viewers would agree that they did. They would also agree that for a sickeningly long time, Army Secretary Stevens went out of his way to accommodate McCarthy and Cohn...
...Army use Schine as a "hostage"? Not proved; once he was in service, the Army never threatened to abuse or discriminate against him, instead treated him with kid gloves...
...Army try to "blackmail" McCarthy out of his investigations by publishing its report on the Schine case...