Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, the predicament of Secretary Stevens also serves a purpose. There would have been no need for hearings if President Eisenhower was aware of political realities. In November, he could have given explicit support to the army that produced him by publicly denouncing the distorted picture at Fort Monmouth given...
Stevens: I think that's a bit uncalled for, if I may say so, Senator.
A moment later Jenkins was telling Stevens, "It may be that your failure to give a direct answer to a direct question accounts for the fact that you've been on the stand so long."
Stevens gave many televiewers the impression that he was evading. But this impression arose from McCarthy's assumption that "orders" were given or taken by Stevens in this case. Stevens and his aides had probably consulted with scores of officials during the development of the Cohn-Schine affair. One...
Inevitably, the acted scenes contain some purple-prose trills. The crusty voice of Judith Anderson as Carmen gasps: "I cannot live a lie . . . Free I was born and free I want to die." Joseph Gotten as Canio in Pagliacci moans: "To have to act, act, when my brain whirls in...