Word: wisconsin
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 44, Wisconsin's junior Senator, tried hard last month to convince the public that "this isn't my case." But last week, by his own actions, Joe McCarthy left no doubt that he is the dispute's most prominent figure...
...study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science and economics at five universities, worked as a farm laborer, factory hand, restaurant waiter, and nearly starved between times. At Wisconsin, an American professor helped convert the earnest young Indian to Marxism, and he went back to India snorting for action...
...President said he could not sign the petition, however, because he is no longer a legal resident of Wisconsin. But, according to Willoughby, he wished the campaign luck, and said the petition might be an effective moral weapon against McCarthy even without succeeding in having the Senator recalled...
...Must Go" campaign, started on March 18 by Republican Leroy Gore, editor of a Wisconsin weekly, is based on an untried clause in the state constitution which provides for the recall of any elected official. According to the law, petitions against McCarthy signed by one fourth of the number of citizens who voted in 1952, could bring about a now Senatorial election in the state...
Willoughby started his attempt to get signatures from Wisconsin residents here last Saturday, when he placed a "Joe Must Go" classified advertisement in the CRIMSON. Response so far has been disappointing, he reports, mainly because most of the students here are not yet 21 and therefore cannot sign the petition...