Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington newsmen pretty well know how Pearson, a useful tool in the throat-cutting that is always going on in Washington, got the messages. They apparently came from someone in the Pentagon with the knife out for MacArthur. But in printing classified material, Pearson had pulled a journalistic bonerif the Army wanted to be tough about...
Almost everyone else lined up on Pearson's side. Calling McCarthy's charge that Pearson is a Communist tool an "outrageous big lie," the Washington Post summed up the general feeling of newsmen: "Senator McCarthy is able, by virtue of his congressional immunity, to engage in unrestricted defamation of any radio commentator or newspaper columnist whose opinions displease him . . . The public must demand an end to the kind of thought control that Senator McCarthy is creating through blackmailing advertisers...
...concoction. His three brothers-a steel-fisted money-grabber, a radical of the Debs persuasion, a soft-fingered esthete-are all pulling in different directions, threatening to tear the family business apart. Loyal Charles, the balance wheel, tries to keep them all geared together, and the concern, a tool company, going straight down the middle of the road...
...European reaction to the Hoover speech might have been a handy tool for the U.S. State Department. For instance, it could have called the French government's attention to that part of the speech which suggested (correctly) that the European defenses were not being built fast enough. Instead, Washington's answer to the Hoover speech was to justify the rate of European rearmament, thus further encouraging the "go slow" policy of the North Atlantic alliance...
After this, the Senator wound up and fogged in his big mudball: Pearson was not only a "greedy, degenerate liar" with a "perverted mentality" but was also a tool of Moscow, fiendishly intent on destroying "the very heart of this Republic." Pearson, he said, was not a card-carrying party member, but he got secret orders from the Reds through an associate, David Karr, whom McCarthy identified as a former writer for the Communist Daily Worker. Furthermore, he cried, Columnist Pearson had been assigned the job of ruining General Douglas MacArthur...