In 1950 who made the allegation that 205 State Department officials were 'card carrying communists'?
Card-carrying Communist remains derogatory. After the 1950s, the scope of the word expanded and is used for non-political applications. Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed there were fifty-seven "card-carrying communists" working for the United States Department of State, an allegation that was widely reported by American newspapers. This figure was different from the 205 "bad risks" figure, confusing reporters. The "fifty-seven card-carrying Communists" phrase first appears in a radio interview that McCarthy gave in Salt Lake City, and is the phrase that appears in the Congressional Record on the speech he gave at Wheeling. McCarthy made a distinction between "card-carrying communists" and what he
Card-carrying Communist advent of digital technology, the contemporary Communist Party USA does not issue membership cards. Many Protestant and Catholic Christians, as well as political conservatives, worked together to popularize wallet-sized or pocket images of "The Head of Christ" by Warner Sallman, promoting the idea that "there ought to be 'card-carrying Christians' to counter the effect of 'card-carrying communists'." Up until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the "Head of Christ" "had been printed more than 500 million times and had achieved global iconic status." Card-carrying Communist "Card-carrying communist" is a term popularised during the Second Red Scare as