Word: algers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communism in Government. "As I have repeatedly said, I have never doubted the verdict of the jury which convicted [Alger Hiss]. If [that] places me in disagreement with what President Truman says (TIME, Sept. 17), that is where the record must rest." Once he had delivered this carefully prepared statement at a Washington press conference, Stevenson refused to answer another question as to whether he actually believed Hiss a traitor...
Communism at Home. "It shouldn't be an issue which would ever divide Americans. [But] if Mr. Stevenson does not repudiate the statement of Mr. Truman, who still says that Alger Hiss was not a Communist and not a spy, then we have no choice but to discuss the issue and let the people decide whether we or our opponents are better qualified to handle this difficult problem...
...President, is it true that you once characterized Richard Nixon's investigation into the Alger Hiss case as a red herring...
...didn't approve the investigation and exposure of Alger Hiss...
...didn't say that at all. I said the investigation was for the purpose of covering up the facts in legislation in which the Government was interested at the time for the welfare of the people. That's all it was intended to be. Alger Hiss was never convicted of being disloyal to the Government...