This Sigma Kappa is remembered as one of the first senators to speak out against Joseph McCarthy
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Joseph R. McCarthy - Cold War - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Joseph R. McCarthy, including videos, ... McCarthy's accusations were so intimidating that few people dared to speak out against him. ... At the time, McCarthy was a first-term senator from Wisconsin who had won ... 1; 2; 3. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. But if you see...
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Edward R. Murrow - Wikipedia  Edward R. Murrow KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He was generally referred to as Ed Murrow. He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news ... A member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, he was also active in college politics. By his teen years, Murrow went by the nickname "Ed" and...
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Edward R. Murrow - New World Encyclopedia  Aug 21, 2014 ... He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War ... A member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Murrow was also active in college ... report of his career: "This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna .... and contributed to the political downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia  Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908  May 2, 1957) was an American ... A lesser-known element... and one that harmed far more people was the ... On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of ... McCarthy dropped out of junior high school at age 14 to help his parents...
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"National Suicide": Margaret Chase Smith and Six Republican ...  The anticommunist crusader Senator Joseph McCarthy stepped into national ... In protest, Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith composed the ... Declaration of Conscience, June 1, 1950 ... I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of .... But we are Americans first.
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Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia  Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908  May 2, 1957) was an American ... He also used various charges of communism, communist sympathies, ... and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year, ... On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote...
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Joseph McCarthy - The New York Times  When I walked into the mall in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, on a late and lazy ... as it were, beside the fallen hero's tomb (although their offices are actually in a strip ... "Senator McCarthy died yesterday in Washington," wrote the English ..... One day after McCarthy's censure by the Senate in 1954, Bobby was sailing on...
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Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957) - The George Washington University  Joseph R. McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, November 14, 1908, ... In 1930, he enrolled in Marquette University and developed a reputation as a card ... McCarthy campaigned with a vengeance and over the course of the election ... narrowly defeated the overconfident Senator Robert La Follette in the 1946...
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The Cold War Home Front: McCarthyism  Jan 28, 2013 ... Shortly after WWII a phenomenon known as McCarthyism began to ... by Senator McCarthy's Senate sub-committee, culminating in 1954 with .... Being in the majority meant control of committee chairs, including the .... After being asked to identify Chambers from a photograph, Hiss indicated that his face...
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Joseph R. McCarthy - Cold War - HISTORY.com  During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at ... At the time, McCarthy was a first-term senator from Wisconsin who had won...
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The Fifties: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley  Sep 24, 2013 ... The film also shows how a policy of racial discrimination prevented blacks .... See It Now produced in the 50s by CBS, though not television's first public ... whose steamy novel Petyon Place exposed small-town hypocrisy, are ... The Senate anti-communist hearings conducted by Joseph McCarthy in the...
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Eugene McCarthy - Wikipedia  Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy (March 29, 1916  December 10, 2005) was an American ... In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first candidate to ... McCarthy became a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. .... and ran as an Independent candidate for President in the 1976 election.
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One Vote Against War With Japan - Infoplease  ... asked for a declaration of war (against Japan) there was only one vote against it. ... That one vote was from Montana Republican Jeannette Rankin. ... on the floor of the House after being booed and hissed at by other members of Congress . ... She served two separate terms in the House, from 1917-19 and from 1941-43.
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General History of Fraternities and Sororities in the United States ...  Jul 22, 2016 ... The first Greek letter organization was Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded ... found a new rival in the form of an anit-secret society called the Social ... in 1873 Delta Gamma began at Lewis Institute for Young Women in Oxford, Mississippi. On November 9, 1874, Sigma Kappa was founded at Colby College...
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Jeopary Questions page 1699 - MANY "NATION"s - TriviaBistro.com  MANY "NATION"s: Senator Joseph McCarthy was the first guest on this CBS show when it premiered November 7, 1954 ... MANY "NATION"s: In the Pledge of Allegiance, it's the 4-word phrase that precedes "Indivisible" ... The Petrine Doctrine says that the men in this job are carrying on the work of its first holder.
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Ode to Abe - FT.com  Jan 31, 2009 ... Writing in 1922, the great American curmudgeon, HL Mencken, rep-orted that ... interests and something will resonate back at you from the mid-19th century. ... but he was pragmatic - he was, after all, a politician seeking election. ... senate in 1858 against Stephen Douglas, the "little giant" and fabled orator.
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1641. Carl Schurz (1829-1906). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of ...  QUOTATION: The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My ... ATTRIBUTION: Senator CARL SCHURZ, remarks in the Senate, February 29, 1872, ... 'Our countrywhen right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.
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This week in history: Charles Sumner attacked in the Senate ...  May 20, 2015 ... Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate with a cane. ... On May 22, 1856, amidst the tension stemming from Bleeding Kansas, Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Massachusetts Sen. ... On May 19-20, Sumner gave an hours long speech in the Senate titled The Crime Against Kansas: The...
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Remembering Eugene McCarthy : NPR  Dec 12, 2005 ... And when you think of 1968, you also remember Eugene McCarthy, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, whose presidential candidacy was based on ... He ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1976. In 1980...
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Edward R. Murrow & Sen. Joe McCarthy  May 18, 2014 ... Sen. Joe McCarthy. Background on the McCarthy era Communist witch hunts ... York Times' TV critic Jack Gould reflected an ongoing canonization process ... be remembered as the week that broadcasting recaptured its soul.
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Anti-Communism in the 1950s | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of ...  Government loyalty boards investigated millions of federal employees, ... states required teachers and other public employees to take loyalty oaths. ... name derived from one of the era's most notorious anti-Communists, Senator Joseph McCarthy. .... Cold War liberals like Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, union leader...