Word: mccarthyism
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...editorial accompanies the Post's publication of Senator Joseph C. McCarthy's new book, McCarthyism. Loud and random red chasing ostensibly won McCarthy a Wisconsin primary, and obviously, Mr. Fox thinks this strategy can sell newspapers for the financially shaky Post. Fortunately, both Mayor Hynes and Milton E. Lord, director of the library, have resisted the Post's blasting. The elimination of books, and for that matter newspapers as well, should occur in one way only--by people refusing to read them of their own accord...
...realization now comes to me that this is truly a damning of the present Administration for its unwillingness to rid our Government of subversives . . . The only right way to end "McCarthyism" is to vote for Eisenhower and rid the Government of those elements that have created a need for "McCarthyism...
...significance of the Wisconsin primary was in how the voters of one of the more enlightened states reacted to the debate over McCarthyism. Joe was up against stern opposition. His opponent, Lawyer Len Schmitt, was able and well known. Schmitt put on a vigorous, adequately financed campaign in which he got a respectful hearing. Wisconsin law allows members of one party to vote in the other's primary, and Democrats were strongly urged to get in there and beat Joe. Democrats by the thousands apparently did vote in the Republican primary -but most of them voted for McCarthy...
Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing accused Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday of "spreading a lie by insuination" in blaming the government for extravagance. That is "typical, arogant McCarthyism," Ewing said in a statement directly challenging the Republican presidential candidate on the question of a proposed federal health insurance program...
...Angeles schools found it handy, but to the leagues, legions, and committees it was a stark example of red infiltration. The battlecry sounded, and from all parts of the state the super-patriots came, brandishing their copies of McCarthyism (the Senator's version) and denouncing...