Word: stim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment, McCarthy rose and gave his fellow Senators a sample of his ill-tempered vein. He entered in the Congressional Record a letter written by Harry Woodring, President Roosevelt's ineffective Secretary of War from 1936 to 1940 (whom F.D.R. sent packing to make room for Henry L. Stim-son). Democrat Woodring's letter, dated June 23, 1954 and addressed to New York Businessman Robert Harris, accused George C. Marshall of selling out Nationalist China under orders from the Truman Administration, and added: "I can tell you that he would sell out his grandmother for personal advantage...