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Sen. Joseph O. Clark House was created in 1924.
Sen. McCarthy claimed there was widespread communist infiltration throughout all levels of US government. He was wrong, was publically humiliated, and died just a few years later, a disgraced alcoholic.
Former Sen. McCarthy
Former Sen. McCarthy
Most generally this is an Americanism which means the act of legislatively levelling accusations of treason or subversion without supporting evidence. Specifically, it arose from the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committeeinto the activities of "suspected Communists", chaired by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) of Wisconsin, most prominently toward the Hollywood blacklist.
His full name is Joseph Isadore Lieberman.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy instituted a series of "witch hunts" in which people who were suspected of Communist ties were brought in and publicly questioned. The suspicions were often based on hearsay and violated the privacy of those questioned. McCarthism refers to the mindset and techniques used by McCarthy. He seemed to believe that everyone was a dangerous communist until he could prove otherwise.
Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, 1925 at the age of 58.
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The Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954 led to Sen Joseph McCarthy's massive loss of popularity and his later censure.The hearings were an offshoot of McCarthy's campaigns to uncover subversives in government operations, with his attacks on the U.S. Army leading to the first televised government hearings in U.S. history, the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.Airing on national television from April 22 and June 17, 1954, for 188 hours of broadcast time in front of 22 million viewers. McCarthy’s frequent interruptions and his calls of "point of order" made him the object of national ridicule.On June 9, the hearings reached their moment of greatest drama, when Army Counsel Joseph Welch told McCarthy " I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. .... Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"The gallery broke into applause and two weeks later the hearings came to an inconclusive finish.
Unless the person specifically states that he is a member of the Freemasons, it is hard to know for sure.