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Fifteen minutes before the Army-McCarthy hearings ended. Michigan's Senator Charles Potter made an effort to sum up. He passed a mimeographed statement around the hearing room. McCarthy grabbed a copy, gawked at it with astonishment, and rushed it by messenger around the table to his friend from Illinois, Senator Everett Dirksen. Promptly, Dirksen blew a stream of earnest, oily words into Potter's ear. Charlie merely smiled...
Shift of Balance. Said Potter's statement, in part: "I am convinced that the principal accusation of each side in the controversy was borne out by testimony . . . The testimony of witnesses of both sides was saturated with statements which were not truthful ... I believe there may have been subornation of perjury ... I shall propose dismissal of those employees who have played top roles on both sides . . . There should never have been at any time any conversation about a commission or the military status of one of its [the committee staff's] members by anyone but the person concerned...
Neither side should haye been surprised by Potter's statement. In World War II Potter rose from private to major, was wounded three times. In the Colmar pocket, both of his legs were blown off by, an enemy land mine. With that record behind him, Potter could reasonably find it difficult to sympathize either with faltering Army leadership or with efforts to make two peacetime years of Army life bearable for high-living Private Gerard David Schine...
...face indeed. Its composite features: genial Chairman Mundt, the "tormented mushroom"; Illinois' orating Everett Dirksen ("Old Bear Grease"); Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who didn't know when he was being insulted; Michigan's well-meaning but generally ineffective Potter; and, of course, McCarthy...
...making mellifluous pro-Eisenhower noises a few months ago, is now revealed as McCarthy's staunch supporter on the committee: Idaho's Dworshak, who was publicly insulted by McCarthy a few weeks ago, has masticated his pride and does what Dirksen suggests; Michigan's Freshman Senator Potter seems adrift; Chairman Mundt, trying painfully to be impartial, has won himself a new name-The Tormented Mushroom...