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A Select Committee of the Senate recommended the censure of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and thereby erected a new landmark in U.S. government. The report was carefully constructed by six shirtsleeved men in the office of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, a man little known...
Also cited by the House were Barrows Dunham, Temple University philosophy professor, whose case appears in detail elsewhere in the paper; two public school teachers, Wilbur Lee Mahaney, Jr., Trappe, Pa., and Mrs. Goldie E. Watson, of Philadelphia; Ole Fagerhaugh, Oakland, California warehouseman, John T. Watkins, Rock Island, Illinois, official...
Arthur Watkins of Utah is a hard man who knows how to use a gavel. Four weeks ago, he used one to discipline Joe McCarthy. And in his committee's 60-page censure report there is a hardness and a sharpness which brings to mind those early rings from the...
Charge Three is an issue because it accuses the Senator of being more than a boor; it shows that he would subvert constitutional guarantees. To manhandle generals and senators is one thing; to manhandle the law is quite another. McCarthy claimed that federal employees are duty bound to give him...
McCarthy has been judged, but the real issue has not yet been disposed of. Eventually some final decision on the overlapping rights and powers of President and Congress will have to be made. But for the present, the Watkins Committee is not to be judged harshly for sidestepping this one...