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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 21

91 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 91 pages OCR'd
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2 14-Hr. Blast . At McCarthy | From Floor Challenges ‘Hoaxed’ Senate to Aci on Day Long Awaited For Tydings, yesterday was day he had awaited for almos} four months, when he filed hi i. ‘Vil, Charoes’ Made? subcommittee’s majority renori 0 - Yire Unarges ae f/ McCarthy's charges and ioii a > os ‘ ofl packed Senate what he thought In Publicity ‘Dregs about them and (heir author. By Alfred Friendly It was one of the bitterest and : Post Reporter ‘ most barefisied personal de- ' ae nunciations ever delivered on the, Senator Tydings told the| Senate floor. Tydings gave back Senate yesterday it had been: in two hours what he had taken - : rthy in the form of ! hoaxed and deceived by the Soe gant eertonat attack. from: “false and vile charges” of; March to July. Sénator McCarthy, and he; To the Wiseansin Republican's weal nog ; ; ss daily cry that Tydings’ subcom- cnauengead senators foe do: something about it. mittee had been “whitewashing” he said the record would show: ' The Maryland Democrat, chair- \ Man of the subcommittee that in- “who has been whitewashing—| vestigated McCarthy's allegations whitewashing with mud. with. slime, with flth, with the dregs of' of subversion in the State Depart- ment, appeared clearly to be ask- publicity.” : The attack, in which Tydings got: more exercise in striding to and’ : fro and gesturing than he would ing for a motion of censure. He have in three sets of tennis, was said, however, he would not pro- sccompanied by a showing of pow the himself. 4 mes - charis—later hung up to bedeck unin vervupted ive andone hale the Senate chamber walls—and hour speech, Tydings defied the desks stacked high with papers Senate to show that McCarthy's. harges were not “a fraud, a hoax, nda deceit.” and asked Sen- and phonograph records of MNec- Carthy’s speeches—the latter never lors $@ “search iheir consciences” for remedial action. . — played. aie) Tydings took the floor in the See LOYALTY, Page 14, Col. Fa as 4 - tytn if ; DB AUS gist tte tia hee Clegg Glavia _ Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Bets Pa NOT RHOORDED sg 78 AUG 19 1950 “| - - 7 ‘ \ \ ry a Page Times-Herald __ Wash. Wash. Wash.
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