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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  McCarthyism
McCarthy, was made chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, and this gave him the opportunity to investigate the possibility of communist subversion.
McCarthy made it clear to the witnesses that the only way of showing that they had abandoned their left-wing views was by naming other members of the party.
Joseph McCarthy considered a libel suit against Greenspun but decided against it when he was told by his lawyers that if the case went ahead he would have to take the witness stand and answer questions about his sexuality.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthyism.htm   (5173 words)

  
 The McCarthy Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
McCarthy and Undersecretary of State John Puerifory claimed that there was a "homosexual underground" that was abetting the "communist conspiracy." Numerous reports of the "pervert peril"-so called by the media-were filed in the spring of 1950.
President Eisenhower, who was a staunch supporter of McCarthy after the 1952 election, was very unhappy with McCarthy by October of 1953 and realized it was time to put a stop to the witch-hunts that had been taking place.
The term "McCarthyism" is still coined today as applicable to instances of irrational fear and paranoia causing systematic or institutionalized action to be taken against any perceived scapegoat group.
members.aol.com /matrixwerx/glbthistory/mccarthyism.htm   (434 words)

  
 Heroine Worship: Jenny McCarthy, The McCarthy Era
McCarthy has the blond, whole- some, slightly indistinct beauty of a prom queen, even though her spectacularly lush figure is shown off by tight white jeans and a flowery blue bikini top.
McCarthy did help select the songs, but her far more noticeable contribution is the inside poster, featuring Jenny in a yellow polka-dot bikini.
Manzella and McCarthy also tagged along when Lee blitzed Cannes in 1995, trying to sell the foreign rights for "Barb Wire," a $17 million project that would be her legitimate film debut; she would star as a tattooed, leather-clad action hero.
www.nytimes.com /specials/magazine4/articles/mccarthy.html   (2780 words)

  
 Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy named four of these people, who had held left-wing views in their youth, but when Democrats accused McCarthy of smear tactics, he suggested they were part of this communist conspiracy.
McCarthy, as chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, was in an ideal position to exploit this situation.
McCarthy considered a libel suit against Greenspun but decided against it when he was told by his lawyers that if the case went ahead he would have to take the witness stand and answer questions about his sexuality.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthy.htm   (4788 words)

  
 McCarthy's Witch Hunt
Many refused to take the oaths as a matter of principle, claiming that membership in the Communist Party was their right as citizens of a free country, just as was membership in the Democratic, Republican, or any other political party.
McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin who was obsessed by the anti-Communist virus and carried on a hysterical campaign, supported by the newspapers, TV and radio for several tragic years, until finally his arrogance and extremism led to public refusal to take any more of it, and he went down to defeat.
The reason for this is that those who are foreign born do not have the protection that native born citizens have of the laws of the Constitution, so they are easier to prosecute.
members.tripod.com /~HazelWolf/Hazel_Witchhunt.html   (2644 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Profile: Joseph Raymond McCarthy
McCarthy rarely provided any solid evidence to back up his claims, but in the political climate of the time his accusations and subsequent investigations nonetheless ended many a career and damaged a good number of lives.
After winning re-election in 1952, McCarthy became chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, a position he used to launch many of his investigations of government officials and agencies.
In 1954, the Army launched its counterattack, charging that McCarthy was seeking preferential treatment for a consultant, David Schine, who in 1953 had been drafted into the Army.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/mccarthy   (427 words)

  
 ERA - European Regions Airline Association
ERA has signed a joint Resolution witih the international Flight Safety Foundation urging governments and national authorities to clamp down on criminal prosecution in the wake of air disasters, claiming that it is detrimental to safety progress......
ERA issued a warning today that passengers and destinations could be the ultimate losers if the secondary trading of slots, currently being considered by the European Commission in its proposal to extend the existing slot allocation regulation, does not undergo a full impact assessment......
ERA has asked the European Commission to undertake a major revision of the section on air transport in its White Paper on European transport policy.
www.eraa.org /news/erapressreleases   (1763 words)

  
 McCarthy goes back to Rangers - The Boston Globe
The brief Sandy McCarthy era in Boston ended yesterday when he was claimed off waivers by the New York Rangers.
McCarthy was out on the ice during the morning skate in preparation for last night's game against the Nashville Predators when coach Mike Sullivan took a phone call and then called McCarthy off.
McCarthy, 31, said it was a lack of communication within the organization that bothered him most.
www.boston.com /sports/hockey/bruins/articles/2004/03/10/mccarthy_goes_back_to_rangers?mode=PF   (617 words)

  
 "Fire!" (Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium, Library of Congress Exhibition)
In June 1954, McCarthy was censured and in December condemned by the Senate.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's continued string of reckless charges of communism in government created such a sensation that the Senate appointed a special committee under Millard E. Tydings to investigate his "evidence." McCarthy managed to turn the hearings into a circus, each new charge obscuring the fact that earlier accusations weren't backed up.
McCarthy used this to charge that he was in the pay of the administration.
www.loc.gov /rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html   (1568 words)

  
 NOLA.com: Saints
McCarthy, who had been the San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator for one season, takes over the vacancy left when Mike Sherman was fired following the 2005 campaign.
The 42-year-old McCarthy, who also served as the offensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints from 2000-04, is now the youngest head coach in the NFL, nearly three months younger than Tampa Bay's Jon Gruden.
McCarthy returns to the team where he spent the 1999 season as the club's quarterbacks coach.
www.nola.com /saints/spnet.ssf?/default.asp?c=advance&page=nfl/news/ABN3998535.htm   (340 words)

  
 McCarthy Era Offers Cautionary Tale for Post-9/11 America, Stone Says
There was only one problem for McCarthy: "This was a complete fabrication." He bluffed his way through the aftermath, at one point telling a reporter he left the list in his other suit, after promising to tell all.
McCarthy announced his intentions to investigate the federal government, colleges, and universities, and in 1953 began an investigation of Voice of America, a World War II agency that promoted a positive view of the United States abroad.
Moves to censure McCarthy climaxed when in 1954 a six-member congressional committee recommended that McCarthy be condemned “for reprehensible and contemptuous conduct.” The measure was adopted, 67-22, with Republicans split on the vote.
www.law.virginia.edu /html/news/2004_spr/mccarthy.htm   (2621 words)

  
 Timeline of McCarthy Era, 1945-1954 | Participate.net
February 1950 -- McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, West Virginia claiming to have 205 known members of the communist party; numbers are borrowed from Truman administration's count of investigations.November 1950 -- Democrats lose six seats in the Senate and 31 in the House, but retain control of both houses.
McCarthy chooses not to pursue a libel suit, lest he or his staff be forced to answer questions about their sexuality (he marries his secretary five weeks later).
Almost a year to the day after McCarthy is censured is December 1, 1955, when NAACP member Rosa Parks sits down on a Montgomery bus and does not give it up (inspired of course by the landmark 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling).
www.participate.net /node/783   (1855 words)

  
 Tracked in America: McCarthy Era
The FBI also disseminated damaging information on individuals to members of Congress to influence public opinion about the communist threat.
Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade, dating from 1950 and heightened during his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, rose to legendary ferocity.
Although Congress censured the Wisconsin Republican in 1954, the legacy of fear and suspicion McCarthy helped create lived on through the 1970's, as evidenced by FBI surveillance of the civil rights movement and Vietnam era anti-war demonstrations.
www.trackedinamerica.org /timeline/mccarthy_era/intro   (603 words)

  
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In 1950, McCarthy claimed to have a list of 205 members of the Communist Party working in the State Department (the department responsible for the foreign affairs of the USA).
McCarthy never produced any evidence, but caused many public figures reputations to be ruined.
McCarthy appeared rude and aggressive on TV Chaplin was accused of being a communist by McCarthy
members.lycos.co.uk /pottershistory/new_page_2.htm   (338 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - McCarthy era begins in Green Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
McCarthy compared his previous jobs, as an offensive coordinator in San Francisco and New Orleans, to building a house from the ground up.
McCarthy said he considers Favre one of the most coachable quarterbacks in the league.
McCarthy cited the 49ers' youth as a reason for their struggles.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/packers/2006-01-12-mccarthy_x.htm   (860 words)

  
 Sen. Joe McCarthy and Camp Evans
In October 1953, McCarthy issued the claim that Julius Rosenberg had set up a wartime spy ring at Fort Monmouth that might still be in operation (Ewald 1984:93).
In spite of McCarthy’s considerable digging for espionage in the Army Signal Corps and Camp Evans in 1953 and 1954, not one individual was ever-prosecuted (Reeves 1982 Pg.
McCarthy's probe had a long-lasting impact on Wall Twp.'s Camp Evans.
www.infoage.org /mccarthy.html   (1767 words)

  
 McCarthy Era
The Red Scare and McCarthyism constituted a “paranoid reaction to Soviet advances in technology, espionage, and the political conversion of other nations in the postwar period” (Barrett).
Hiss’ sentence convinced the American public that communist infiltration was a grave reality and it did not surprise the American people when Joseph McCarthy announced that he had a list of communist spies in the government.
Because so many people believed of threatening communist infiltration, McCarthy attacked and purged hundreds of people from the government whom he believed were communist secret agents.
ns.headroyce.org /~us_history/2004/b_al/mccarthy.html   (1146 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: After McCarthy Era, Harvard Shelves the Red Scare
McCarthy focused his efforts on Harvard, nicknamed “the Kremlin on the Charles.” Though the hearings were a distant reality for most undergraduates, Kamin, a graduate student employed by the Harvard Corporation as a teaching fellow, was vulnerable to the Red Scare.
“McCarthy maintained that he was not investigating Harvard, but that since his committee franchise included oversight of defense plants and Harvard accepted research grants from the Department of Defense, Harvard was in effect a defense plant—and I was an employee of Harvard,” wrote Kamin.
Applause for McCarthy led the judge to declare a mistrial for Kamin in October.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=513625   (1095 words)

  
 McCarthy Era
Joseph McCarthy claims many in federal government are government are communists his speech ushers in four years of redbaiting later known as the McCarthy era.
The McCarthy era during the 1940s and 1950s is a compelling example of this.
Arthur Miller was one of the accused during the McCarthy era.
www.megaessays.com /essay_search/McCarthy_Era.html   (693 words)

  
 Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
McCarthy may have exaggerated the scope of the problem but not by much… The Age of McCarthyism, it turns out, was not the simple witch hunt of the innocent by the malevolent as two generations of high school and college students have been taught."
From the 1950s through the 1980s, the Left was largely content to describe McCarthyism in Hellman's terms: a baseless assault by right-wing paranoids and fanatics.
McCarthy: Not for the Faint of Heart 04/28 6:24 a.m.
www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg022603.asp   (1784 words)

  
 American Masters . McCarthyism | PBS
Though eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for unbecoming conduct, his zealous campaigning ushered in one of the most repressive times in 20th-century American politics.
Known as McCarthyism, the paranoid hunt for infiltrators was notoriously difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom were labeled communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working.
Among those few were comedian Mort Sahl, and journalist Edward R. Murrow, whose strong criticisms of McCarthy are often cited as playing an important role in his eventual removal from power.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html   (321 words)

  
 "Good Night, and Good Luck" — Joe McCarthy Rides Again — Bernard Weiner
McCarthy's downfall was that he didn't know where to stop, or when; indeed, he believed he was unstoppable.
McCarthy was encouraged by Republicans in the 1950s to rampage around looking for supposed Communists — and bullying everyone in his path — because it would reap the party political advantage in the post-World War II Cold War hysteria.
It barely captures the social sweep and damage done by McCarthyism outside the CBS newsroom, and in its desire to glorify the courageous work of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow (played brilliantly by David Straithairn) and his colleague Fred Friendly (Clooney), it overlooks that fact that others took on McCarthy long before they did.
www.energygrid.com /society/2005/10bw-mccarthy.html   (1797 words)

  
 Howard Zinn's A People's History
John F. Kennedy was cautious on the issue, didn't speak out against McCarthy (he was absent when the censure vote was taken and never said how he would have voted).
McCarthy's insistence that Communism had won in China because of softness on Communism in the American government was close to Kennedy's own view, expressed in the House of Representatives, January 1949, when the Chinese Communists took over Peking.
It was not McCarthy and the Republicans, but the liberal Democratic Truman administration, whose Justice Department initiated a series of prosecutions that intensified the nation's anti-Communist mood.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html   (6916 words)

  
 McCarthy, Eugene Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1967 he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination as a direct challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam policies.
His antiwar position won the support of many liberals and his strong showing (Mar., 1968) in the New Hampshire primary brought Sen. Robert F. Kennedy into the race and helped persuade Johnson not to seek reelection.
Defeated for the nomination by Hubert H. Humphrey, McCarthy retired from the Senate and resumed (1973) teaching, but subsequently mounted several (1976, 1988, 1992) futile campaigns for the presidency.
www.bartleby.com /65/mc/McCarthyE.html   (227 words)

  
 The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era
The conceptual key to Redish’s approach to McCarthy era governmental policies regarding public education (e.g., investigations into communist influences, dismissing known communist teachers, and loyalty oaths) is a “virtually intractable dilemma” (p.178).
Redish concludes the chapter by trying his hand at extrapolating from the McCarthy era analysis to contemporary issues, such as school bulletin boards, textbook selections, and then doubling-back to the McCarthy era to address policies controlling teachers’ political activities.
It emphasizes a defense of the historical-formalist approach to the McCarthy era and its implications for innovative conceptions of unlawful advocacy, the rights of nonassociation, and public education.
www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/redish0106.htm   (2020 words)

  
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 SparkNotes: John F. Kennedy: The Star Senator
In the Senate, meanwhile, Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts were still going strong, intimidating even the popular new president, Dwight Eisenhower.
On December 2, 1954, the U.S. Senate officially censured McCarthy, by a vote of 67 to 22.
In failing to criticize McCarthy early on, JFK was no more blameworthy than most of the other politicians of the era.
www.sparknotes.com /biography/jfk/section5.rhtml   (865 words)

  
 Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
McCarthy played fast and loose with the facts as evidenced by his list of alleged communists in the State Department -- the number of names changing from speech to speech.
McCarthy was a crude bully who most likely would have been toppled eventually.
McCarthy, of course, had few limits on who he'd go after in his attempts to root out "communists" and was singlehandedly responsible for getting many talented people fllisted, even if they were innocent of any wrongdoing.
www.i-love-cats.com /cat-supplies/reviews-Cat-3375311-B000E1NXJ0-51-Good_Night_and_Good_Luck_Widescreen_Edition.html   (1668 words)

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