Word: algerisms
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...Capitol's first floor to talk about next year's budget. But he knew that the committee's Republican lions had long been sharpening their claws over his deliberate declamation at a press conference five weeks before: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss."; New Hampshire's Styles Bridges batted first with a soft paw. "Mr. Secretary," he asked across the table, "what do you consider a security risk?" With deadpan seriousness Acheson ticked off departmental regulations on treason, espionage, sus picious association and moral weaknesses that could be "preyed upon...
...only man mentioned in Griffin's latest article is Alger Hiss. "Hiss came from the Harvard Law School," Griffin declared. "So did an unusual percentage of other men accused of Communist espionage while in the service of America...
...days later the Senate voted unanimously to investigate McCarthy's charges. Republicans hoped they might turn up another Alger Hiss case; Democrats felt that they didn't dare stifle an inquiry -and besides, they said confidently, they weren't worried...
...Alger Hiss, or his wife, ever turned over any of these documents to Chambers? Said Hiss: "Never." Would Hiss say that he had never seen Chambers after Jan. 1, 1937? Said Hiss: "Yes." On the basis of those two answers, and on the basis of the evidence already presented, the grand jury indicted Hiss for perjury. In June 1949, he was brought to trial...
...November 1937, and the withdrawal of $400 from Hiss's bank account just a few days before; the Chamberses' detailed accounts of the Hiss homes which the Chamberses said they had visited during those critical years; the Chamberses' onetime maid who identified Alger and Priscilla Hiss as callers...