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...patches to be applied here & there to the espionage, sabotage and immigration laws already on the books. This, said he, would be enough to take care of Communism without endangering the Bill of Rights. He wanted to extend the present statute of limitations in the espionage laws (which saved Alger Hiss from a severer charge); he wanted more authority to deal with deportable aliens, and registration of "persons who have received instruction from a foreign government or political party in espionage or subversive tactics...
...main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from the parade of Justice Holmes's law secretaries: the 1929 incumbent, Alger Hiss...
Among the winners of this year's Horatio Alger awards (presented by the American Schools & Colleges Association): Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who started out with a five-room adobe hacienda); Alexander Harris (who rose from a polisher of cigarette-lighters to president of the Ronson Art Metal Works, Inc.); Thomas E. Courtney (from $6-a-week car washer to president of the $14 million Northern Illinois Corp...
...beat out dapper, conservative Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News. But winning in November would not be so easy. Her Republican opponent will be Congressman Richard Nixon, 37, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and best known for his bloodhound pursuit of Alger Hiss. On the basis of their total primary votes, Congressman Nixon appeared to be a little out ahead of Congresswoman Douglas...
Perjury in the U.S. Seeds of Treason is a reconstruction by two Manhattan journalists of a case built around another courtroom trial: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss. By doing some leg work on the famed "tragedy of history" that caught up Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Reporters Lasky and De Toledano have dug up some highly readable material on the early lives of both men and put together one of the spring's non-fiction bestsellers. (Chambers willingly cooperated, but one of Hiss's lawyers told Lasky and De Toledano that he could not expose...