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10 unusual facts about Joseph McCarthy


Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones

# “You Made Me Love You” (James V. Monaco, Joseph McCarthy) – 2:14

Irene Levine Paull

Under the leadership of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Communists and those suspected of being Communists faced social and political persecution.

John Francis Cronin

However, despite his strong opposition to Communism, Cronin criticized Joseph McCarthy and other anticommunist extremists in the United States, whom he accused of fostering national disunity.

Kenneth Bainbridge

During those years, he drew the ire of Senator Joseph McCarthy for his aggressive defense of his colleagues in academia.

Melbourne Curriculum

National Union of Students Education Officer, Colleen Bolger, stated that staff "are being told they will need to front up at McCarthy-style "trials" to plead the case for their subjects over their colleagues'" criticising the university's Dean of Arts Belinda Probert and the "business mentality of those who run universities" whom she claims many of which also sit on company boards.

Mildred Adams

Her sister-in-law, Dorothy Kenyon, was also a prominent politically active New York attorney who in 1950 ws the first person to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating charges by Sen. Joseph McCarthy concerning membership in Communist-front organizations.

Nicolas Rashevsky

He managed to stay aloof of all science `politics' most of the time, even in very adverse circumstances such as those during the MacCarthy era when completely unfounded political accusations were made about one or two members of his close research group.

The State News

The State News was the first U.S. daily newspaper, commercial or student, to editorially criticize then-U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) for his sweeping charges without proof of communist activities by a number of citizens.

Willard Thorp

He came under great strain and eventually resigned during the McCarthy 'witch-hunt' investigations into alleged Communists 1950–1954.

William S. Dix

These beliefs were especially pertinent during the early Cold War years when Senator Joseph McCarthy was exploiting the fear of communism and calling for censorship of communist propaganda from American libraries and from libraries across the world.


Diana West

Andrew C. McCarthy has come to West's defense in an article in The New Criterion, where he writes West relies on M. Stanton Evans book that comes to the defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy and cites the "groundbreaking scholarship of John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr" to back up Evans' claims.

Gene Weltfish

On April 1, 1953, she was questioned by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security staffed by Roy Cohn and consisting of Senators Joseph McCarthy, Karl Mundt, John McClellan and Stuart Symington.

George Naicker

The House Un-American Activities Committee of the McCarthy period found links in SA where the CPSA was banned in 1950 while the Cold War was being put in place.

Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There

"Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" is a popular song with music by Fred Fisher and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy and Howard Johnson, published in 1916.

Michael Freedland

Witch Hunt in Hollywood: McCarthyism's War On Tinseltown is an account of the activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy and (the not directly connected) House Un-American Activities Committee.

Pennsylvania v. Nelson

The Smith Act was written after the Pennsylvania Sedition Act, but both were created during the Cold War, during the age of Joseph McCarthy and his House Unamerican Activities Committee; this was the time of the “Red Scare,” where McCarthy investigated everyone, because anyone could be a communist.

Saturday Night with Mr. C

#"You Made Me Love You" (Music by James V. Monaco and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy)

Sherman Adams

Among the heated conflicts within the Eisenhower administration were the best method to handle flamboyant personalities such as U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and anti-Communist crusader Whittaker Chambers.

The Fletcher Memorial Home

mentioning many world leaders by name (Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig, Menachem Begin, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Paisley, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon), suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-founded retirement home.

The Register-Guard

In 1953, Tugman was one of four editors in the country to sign a declaration opposing Senator Joseph McCarthy's questioning of New York Post editor James Wechsler in closed Senate hearings.

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1952

The nationally-known and Catholic Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin refused to campaign for his fellow Republican due to his friendship with the Kennedy family; William F. Buckley, Jr. believed that Lodge probably would have won with McCarthy's help.

Walter Leo Weible

During the McCarthy hearings of 1954 and 1955, Senator McCarthy objected to the Army’s decision to promote dentist Irving Peress to Major on the grounds that he was a security risk.

William Fontaine

During the Truman and later McCarthy eras, Fontaine supported the presidential candidacy of socially liberal Republican governor Harold Stassen, who served as President of Penn from 1948 to 1953.