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Herblock coined the term "McCarthyism" in this March 29, 1950 cartoon. In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was a recurring target of Herblock's cartoons, one of which introduced the term McCarthyism. He won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1954. [7] The Washington Post officially endorsed Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.
One of the earliest uses of the term McCarthyism was in a cartoon by Herbert Block ("Herblock"), published in The Washington Post, March 29, 1950. President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9835 of March 21, 1947, required that all federal civil-service employees be screened for "loyalty". The order said that one basis for determining ...
McCarthy's methods also brought on the disapproval and opposition of many. Barely a month after McCarthy's Wheeling speech, the term "McCarthyism" was coined by Washington Post cartoonist Herbert Block. Block and others used the word as a synonym for demagoguery, baseless defamation, and mudslinging. Later, it would be embraced by McCarthy and ...
For years, the legendary Washington Post political cartoonist Herbert Block, aka Herblock, drew Richard Nixon with a menacing five o'clock shadow. After Nixon was elected president in 1968 ...
After his release from prison, Herbert Biberman of the Hollywood Ten directed Salt of the Earth (1954). For this project, he and the newly formed Independent Productions Corporation worked in New Mexico, outside the studio system , with a group of blacklisted professionals: producer Paul Jarrico , writer Michael Wilson , and actor Will Geer .
The groups that organized the protest marches became a major organizing avenue for the creation of local level resistance groups that pressured congressional lawmakers to block Trump’s agenda.
Rep. Andy Biggs is launching a second bid against GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy as conservatives try to deny him the 218 votes he needs to be speaker of the House.
The main target of McCarthyism, however, was ideological nonconformism, and individuals were targeted for their beliefs. Black lists were established in many industries restricting the employment of suspected nonconformists, and libraries were pressured to remove books and periodicals that were considered suspect.