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Often First. The show's guests are not only newsworthy, but increasingly newsmaking. On Meet the Press, Whittaker Chambers touched off the series of events that led to the conviction of Alger Hiss, and Elizabeth Bentley publicly accused William Remington of being a Communist. Governor Dewey used Meet the Press for his first public statement of support of Eisenhower for President, and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson seized his opportunity there to nominate Truman for a third term in 1952. General Bedell Smith, in 1949, said he was certain the Russians had the atom bomb, and Federal...
Just like Horatio Alger, E. Merl Young began at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up in no time at all simply because he was personable, persevering alert-and a friend of the man who owned the ladder...
...choice Senate investigating subcommittee (which last year investigated the five-percenters in Washington and homosexuals in the State Department). In her place he put California's freshman Senator Richard Nixon, who made his mark on the House Un-American Activities Committee as the man who brought down Alger Hiss. Margaret Smith was banished to the subcommittee on reorganization, with little to do but look into any executive plans for implementing the Hoover Commission recommendations...
...after another, through the same Manhattan courtroom where Alger Hiss first came to trial, paraded the witnesses in the trial of William Remington, onetime Department of Commerce economist who quit his job last year to avoid being fired. The charge was the same: perjury. Remington had told a grand jury that he had never been a Communist. Behind the formal charge was the same, even graver accusation that Remington had passed on Government secrets to a Red spy ring...
...final attempt to save himself from a five-year prison sentence, Alger Hiss appealed last week to the Supreme Court to set aside his conviction, because, among other things, Whittaker Chambers had "fabricated" the evidence against...