Labels:text | man | human face | clothing | newspaper | person OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ McCarthy, Joseph Joseph Mccarthy Senator Joe McCarthy gave his name to the virulent anti-Communist fervor - "MoCarthyism" - that gripped the United States in the early 1950s. A controversial figure who indulged in questionable tactics when running for office, MoCarthy entered the U.S. Senate after serving in the Marine Corps in World War II. In 1950, to bolster his political standing, he made his famous alle gation that 205 State Department officials were "card- carrying Communists." The claim was unsubstantiated, but by exploiting television and the press MoCarthy built up a huge following. Becoming chairman of the powerful Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, he attacked many innocent citizens and officials, mainly by innuendo. MoCarthy's inquisitions only ended when he Joseph Mc Carthy, U.S. politician and made the error of accusing the U.S. Army of anti-Communist crusader, 1909-57 supporting Communists. His erratio behavior during the hearings, plus evidence that he and his young counsel, Roy Cohn, had sought favors from the army, caused MoCarthy's abrupt fall from power. He was censured by the Senate and died a few years later. CHRONOLOGY
