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According to an Administration official, requests for special treatment of Private Schine poured in from McCarthy's office. Whether or not Cohn's badgering was effective. Schine led the life of a golden boy at Fort Dix, N.J. Under the pretext of having work to do for McCarthy, Private Schine got extra weekend passes and after-hours passes during his recruit training. Reports reached the Army that Schine's "investigating" work was often conducted at his penthouse apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers, and at such niteries as the Stork Club and "21." At camp...
During McCarthy's hunt for Communists at Fort Monmouth, Army emissaries to McCarthy warned, as quietly as they knew how, that perhaps the Schine affair had gone too far. McCarthy interpreted this as a blackmail threat and tape-recorded the conversations. Then he told his committee, according to Army officials, "The Army is holding Schine hostage to get me to lay off." Cohn had kept a careful eye open for Army cases. When his bellicose boss renewed his interest in the Army, Cohn handed him the Peress case (see box). McCarthy used it on a recent speaking tour...
...David Schine, a subcommittee staff member, hustled to a telephone booth in the corner of the big hearing room in the Senate Office Building. It wasn't long before McCarthy told reporters word had come back from Philip L. Cole, deputy public printer, that Rothschild had been suspended immediately without...
Army Recruit G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 26, heir to a string of seven hotels but better known as investigator for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, was himself under investigation by the Army. At New Jersey's Fort Dix, where Schine had eight weeks' indoctrination, the commandant ordered some 200 of Schine's old barracks buddies to be quizzed on the question of just how basic Soldier Schine's basic training had been. Charges filled the air that Schine had goldbricked his way through his rookie days. Fellow draftees were quoted as saying...
...Women Voters last week, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I believe that Alger Hiss, had he remained as head of the Carnegie Foundation without detection of his alleged treasonable act, would have done less harm to the cause of this nation's prestige abroad than [McCarthy Subcommittee Investigators] Schine and Cohn did in their junket through Europe...