Word: mccarthyism
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...question of his stand on McCarthyism was put to Curley by law students after a three-man round table discussion of "The Political Machine: Use and Abuse...
Other reporters who thought that members of the Administration had "embraced McCarthyism" pointed mainly to five examples to support their belief: 1) State Department Security Chief Scott McLeod has "exercised his authority in a way that pleased Senator McCarthy," 2) failure of the White House to back Mutual Security Director Stassen in his fight with McCarthy over Greek shipping, 3) distribution by the Republican National Committee of the Jenner subcommittee report on subversion in Government, 4) use of "McCarthy and his activities" by the Republican Party at political rallies, 5) failure of the Administration to denounce McCarthy and his tactics...
...large majority of the newsmen agreed that personally Eisenhower "has not embraced McCarthyism" because it "is distasteful" to him. Some correspondents divided the Republicans into two groups, which were defined by one reporter as "Eisenhower Republicans and the just plain Republicans. It is now a battle as to who is going to win. Ike hasn't found a way to bring both ends together. Brownell in his [first] speech certainly drifted from the Eisenhower Republicans, but was brought back into line by Ike." A few newsmen refused to comment altogether. Times Reporter Clayton Knowles suddenly remembered that...
Howe had said methods of the Congressional investigating committees are "obscene," and that the "infection of McCarthyism" has spread throughout the country...
...Committee on Undergraduate Organizations on Academic Freedom, charged yesterday that Young Republican head Roger A. Moore '53 had "discredited his organization by making untrue and conflicting statements" in giving reasons why the HYRC refused to back the committee in its support of President Pusey's recently taken stand on McCarthyism...