Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In time for the afternoon editions, McCarthy and Cohn fired a counterblast: the Army had tried to "blackmail" the committee into calling off its investigation of Communists, the Army had tried to use Private Schine as "a hostage," and Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens had urged the committee...
2) McCarthy, when alone with Adams or Stevens, urged them to draft Schine and give him no special privilege at all;
Mr. Cohn and Mr. Francis Carr, executive director of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee, conferred with Secretary Stevens for approximately 35 minutes. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss . . . plans for the Fort Monmouth investigation.
On the next occasion when Secretary Stevens, Senator McCarthy and Mr. Adams were together, which was within a very few days, Mr. Adams raised the subject of Mr. Schine. Senator McCarthy told Secretary Stevens and Mr. Adams that Mr. Schine was a nuisance, but that Senator McCarthy did not want...
The Tribune has since turned McCarthy's human flaws into padded infallibility. Playing down or ignoring all recent attacks, it brought McCarthy into the Schine affair unchallenged, Under Saturday's banner headline, columnist Willard Edwards again forgot the Senator's critics. He began, "Army Secretary Stevens was accused by Senator...