Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three legal experts last night offered their personal and legal opinions on the significance of the Special Senate Committee's unanimous decision to recommend censuring of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin...
Many people had expected that the Justice Department would prosecute the Wisconsin Senator if the Committee condemned him for urging government employees to inform on any of their superiors whom they suspected of disloyalty. But Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, said that Attorney General Herbert L. Brownell, as the nation's chief law officer can still ask for a Grand jury indiciment against McCarthy...
...Bull Moose Party. For four years (1928-33) he served as a district judge. In Washington, as a member of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, he has had firsthand experience at investigation of Communist infiltration. His family and friends remember only one Watkins statement about McCarthy: "The people of Wisconsin must like him; they elected...
...described by Old Socialist Norman Thomas as the liberals "who may be reluctantly persuaded that Alger Hiss is guilty, but never can forgive Whittaker Chambers." Rorty and Decter completely reject the hysterical view that the U.S. is in the grip of McCarthy-inspired hysteria, or that the man from Wisconsin is the American Hitler...
...calm and sensible answer: "The antibodies of the American social and political organism-aided by the new communications technology which proved its value so mpressively during the televised ArmyMcCarthy hearings-are already power fully at work. They may be trusted to contain and eventually to eliminate the demagogue from Wisconsin...