INVESTIGATIONS: Joe's Bloody Nose

INVESTIGATIONS Joe's Bloody Nose Like most successful rough & tumble fighters. Senator Joe McCarthy always presses in, and is adept at forensic kneeing, gouging and butting. As a consequence, most of his senatorial colleagues give him a wide berth. But last week, when he set out to defend J. B. Matthews, executive staff director of his subcommittee, McCarthy finally gave his critics in both parties a wide and irresistible opening. They jumped him en masse, and Fighting Joe did not get up from among the cuspidors until he had the legislative equivalents...

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