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In a speech in February 1950, McCarthy claimed to have a list of members of the Communist Party USA working in the State Department, which attracted substantial press attention, and the term McCarthyism was published for the first time in late March of that year in The Christian Science Monitor, along with a political cartoon by Herblock in The ...
In fact, by the time of McCarthy's speech only about 65 of the employees mentioned in the Byrnes letter were still with the State Department, and all of these had undergone further security checks. [71] At the time of McCarthy's speech, communism was a significant concern in the United States.
The ALARACT refers to AR 190-11 and public law (section 1062 of Public Law 111–383, also known as the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011); AR 190–11 in turn cites the McCarran Internal Security Act (codified as 50 USC 797). The ALARACT reference is a truncated version of the public law. [27]
In an act of modern McCarthyism, Kentucky's GOP leaders aim to erase the already few Black people in education through racist, anti-DEI measures. In an act of modern McCarthyism, Kentucky's GOP ...
After asking a witness, at McCarthy's request, if a photo entered as evidence "came from a pixie", he defined "pixie" as "a close relative of a fairy". [55] Though "pixie" was a camera-model name at the time, the comparison to "fairy," a derogatory term for a homosexual man, had clear implications.
It is without a doubt important to keep the United States strong in terms of its national security; however, this “modern-day McCarthyism” is just flat-out racist prejudice on the part of ...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress snd will leave at the end of this year, he announced the Wall Street Journal in an op-ed published Wednesday.
Army–McCarthy hearings Joseph McCarthy (left) chats with Roy Cohn at the hearings Event Senate hearing derived from Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists in the US Time April–June 1954 Place Washington, D.C. Participants The two sides of the hearing: US Army (accusing their opponents of blackmail) Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine (accusing the Army of communism ...