Word: alger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice lifted in pride and reverence last week. "Call Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter," he said. Dressed in an ordinary brown suit but robed in his uncommon prestige, little Justice Frankfurter stepped to the stand. He had come from the Supreme Court to Manhattan to be a character witness for Alger Hiss, his onetime Harvard law student, on trial in Federal Court for perjury. The Government had rested and Alger Hiss had begun his defense...
...left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...
...Woodstock. Against those imposing character witnesses was the prosecution's vastly detailed case, based chiefly on the evidence of the stolen State Department documents in the possession of Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist espionage agent. Some of those papers were admittedly in Alger Hiss's own handwriting. All but one of the rest had been typed (according to an FBI expert) on an old Woodstock typewriter which had once belonged to Hiss. The defense turned to the documentary evidence...
This week Alger Hiss will have his chance to sit in the witness chair...
...crowds which had jammed the Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...