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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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| 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 —__
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