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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 21
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All of this Senator Green accomplished by unseating
elected Republican State senators on the basis oF"a
quick recount by two of his henchmen, thus converting
a Democratic senate minority into a majority.
Green’s lieutenant governor, Robert E. Quinn, his
chief agent in this blood-
less revolution, succeeded
Green when the latter be-
came a senator, Quinn is
chiefly remembered for
using the State militia to
shut down the Narragan-
sett race track in order to
put a political enemy out of
husiness
He te
The third New Dealer on
the Tydings whitewash
majority is Brien Mc-
“Mahon, an old hand at
sweeping New Deal dirt un-.
der t! the he rug.
e 0 of the 0 officials of th of the the
ew ew Deal | Department it of Sen. Green
ustice, ¢ the agency charged
“with” exposing and prosecuting subversives. If the
. justice of Senator 1 McCarthy’s assertion that 1] the State
‘ department w nt Was ras loaded with | ._ protected | Communists
and fellow travelers were admitted, McMahon a would
rT ee ne ey,
“have been in the position of € exposing t g_the 2 culpability
of the ‘department | he so Iong served, and, furthermore,
his own dereliction AS on as chief of its c criminal division.——
——_—
As chairman of the joint congressional committee on
atomic energy, Mr. MeMahon previously had bent all
of his efforts toward proving that the atomic energy
commission had properly safeguarded the secrets of
the atom bomb. Only later did the arrest of members
of the Soviet atomic spy ring demongtrate the spurious-
ness of the whitewash applied’ to ithe charges. 0}
Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper that the Atomic & secret had no
neem al ‘ i .
been guarded, } the PE
ee ee - hae
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