Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 21
Page 71
71 / 91
| applauded heartily, thes Teed op"
“o- tte shak band .
performance starring the “golden. would say if I could play ic add- McCarthy sat silent, his hand to? F pees thet remaised
voice" of Senator Joseph R. Mc-/ing with heavy sarcasm: his chin, as Tydings—his voice:McCarthy sat for a few
iCarthy of Wisconsin, ai eres will never get the tinged with sarcasm—said, “Oh, =a .
' LY Lie, cuulo POL, i ia —s . :
| And though advance billing! nearing the golden voice itself my, how the newspapers did lap UP Taek tome Papers. 3
promises a show te remember, youltelling it. (Laughter filled. the|these things.” ey apone . moment, to :
can bet Republican Whip Kenneth!packed chamber.) | Tydings went on ike an a © hema ee
S Wherry won't be in the audi-|, But the crowded Senate andjtra leader, bullding up to his cliy t the chamber siume,
: ae ; jammed galleries could not have|max. He spoke of his subco: sometstA .
jance. Tydings was like a frustrated jyeen more allentive as Tydings|mittee’s action in clearing a
[impressario when Wherry started tdtk the center of the stage. ~~ |Lattjmore and others of MaeCar- a
fe object {o playing the McCarthy; With pointer and charts, he traced |thy’s Communiat charges, and said
ecording on the Senate floor, |what he called McCarthy's “odys-|sorrowfully:
The Maryland Democrat wanted 9¢y" from Wheeling, W. Va., where) “After five months of false
‘ta give the flavor of reality to hisithe 205-Communists charge was'smears, headlines, the papers Cae tg
lcharges that McCarthy prepetrated.aired, to Salt Lake City, Utah, !won’t print much of it. Our hearts id
de “fraud and hoax" on the Senate where the Wisconsin Hed-bunier jare out there in Korea. The pooi
land the American public. changed the figure to 57, to the [devils whose names were paraded
Ail the apparatus was in place.‘Senate floor where, Tydings said, will be lucky if they are men-
\aydings was about to let the Sena-;McCarthy substituted 81 “warmed-/tioned on page 73 under the
ltors hear the Wisconsin Repub-iover” cases of alleged security | weather advertisement.”
|lican’s own voice charging there/risks. “What is the Senate going to 4
iwere 203 card-carrying Communists) New shouting, now speaking tn shout 11?" he demanded.
in the State Department. ;a low, intense voice, Tyrings pro-: When he sat down, Democr
McCarthy had made the claim.duced a chart that he said he had | . ——!
in a broadcast over station WWVA, labeled “Behind the Eight Ball.” - - -
lwheeling, W. Va., jast February.’ It listed eight groups he said had
| Wherre staried to protest that |found nothing in the 81 cases—
‘there are certain rules governing ‘four committes of the Republican-
use of the Senate chamber.” but controlled Eightieth Congress, for-
Tydings cut him short, snapping: Imer Representative Bartel Jonk-
“t will play this record off the'man (B., Mich.), Senators Bourke
Senate {loot at a later time, but-B. Hickenlooper (R., Iowa) and
admission will be by card only. ‘Henry Cabot Lodge, jr. (R., Mass; Page
The Maryland Democrat pro-‘and “the entire Eightieth Con- :
jer lo tell “whai the recora |gress.
tee - see
Times-Heraid —__
Reveal the original PDF page, then click a word to highlight the OCR text.
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
federal bureau
letter
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic