Word: welched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James St. Clair, assistant to counsel Joseph N. Welch in last spring's Army- McCarthy hearings, will address the Young Democratic Club...
Secret Weapon. In Columbus, Ohio, Policemen George Kegg and Ed Welch saw Pettis Adams run from a restaurant, threw their patrol car into second gear to give chase, caught their man when the noise of their backfire made Adams stop running and raise his hands...
...machine, served only one term in Congress before being plowed under at the polls. His legal colleagues consider him a formidable opponent who hangs on like a bulldog in crossexamination. He has none of Ray Jenkins' color, flamboyance or diffusiveness. He is scarcely as humorous as Joseph Nye Welch; on the other hand, Chadwick may be better able than Welch to cope with Washington rough-and-tumble. Said one fellow Chester lawyer: "I can't imagine McCarthy getting Chad so riled up that he'd break down and cry." This week Chadwick went to Washington to work...
Speaking to the American Bar Association in Chicago, Joseph N. Welch, former special counsel for the Army in its squabble with Senator Joseph McCarthy, reflected on his depressing sojourn in Washington. "The two simple emotions I observed at the capital were fear and hate, fanned to a white heat," said he. "It was frightening to me . . .A steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp...
...Early nomination for Man of the Year: Joseph N. Welch-lawyer, gentleman, Republican, champion of decency and fair play, admired by 26 million Democrats and the Lord only knows how many million Republicans...