Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece of Hollywood argot not to be found in The Deer Park is "subpoena envy," which may be defined as the state of mind of the Hollywood liberal who never got called before a committee investigating anything. Author Mailer seems to have a bad case of it. His account of the interrogation by a pair of foul-mouthed goons in the hire of the "Subversive Committee" is calculated to frighten little children. It is bad enough for Mailer to paw every bed on the coast without finding Senator McCarthy underneath...
...Kamin in 1954 without any written evidence at all. It seems that McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and Francis Carr ran the committee by a casual gentlemen's agreement under which a tip that some person had worked on a Government project, if it looked juicy enough, might lead to a subpoena and to blanket questions like, "Who else worked with you?" This is exactly what liberals have been saying about McCarthy's investigating methods for years, of course, but it is reassuring, even at this late date, to get the information from the Senator himself...
Dirksen's assistant in charge of his appointments, Harold Rainville, declared in Chicago that the Illinois Senator would have to cancel at least seven speeches to testify. "He's been so busy the Federal Marshal hasn't caught up with him to serve the subpoena yet," Rainville added...
Louis Wolfson, who normally loves the spotlight, was busy dodging it. He ducked a senatorial subpoena ordering him to testify in the strike of the Wolfson-controlled Capital Transit Co., which has forced thousands of Washingtonians to hitch rides or walk to work during the past two weeks. Despite the inconvenience, Washingtonians seemed almost solidly against Employer Wolfson and in favor of his employees, striking for a 25?-an-hour pay hike and other benefits. Crying that Wolfson was an "economic carpetbagger," Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse introduced a bill to strip Capital Transit of its franchise...
From Yemen and El Salvador, Iceland and New Zealand, some 260 delegates journeyed to do homage to an organization that has power to subpoena none. They represented a total of 1.5 billion people. There, in the flesh, were black men, brown men and white, Communist and capitalist, Moslem and Confucian, atheist and Christian, vegetarian and carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates...