Word: algers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halperin's refusal to testify whether he was a Communist came during Senator Jenner's investigation last June. He also refused to testify if he knew Elizabeth Bentley, Alger Hiss, or others named in the espionage ring...
...case was even more grave than the exposure of Alger Hiss, inasmuch as 1) White held higher positions in the Government, and 2) it was never alleged that a President of the U.S. had been officially informed that Hiss...
When Mrs. Roosevelt, at this late date, refers to Alger Hiss's "alleged" treasonable act (TIME, Oct. 26), I am flabbergasted. If any one thing is responsible for McCarthyism, it is such muddled emotional thinking by people who should know better...
Braden remembered seeing Alger Hiss's name in the report. He added an item of interest: "All that made a deep impression on me. Subsequently, I had a run-in with Hiss over Panama bases, and I could see how he was playing the Communist game...
...Minute Women's protests were remarkably effective. "Many public officials," reported O'Leary, "who might . . . defy a lone organization . . . would be loath to go against the wishes of 500 individuals." The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that he was too controversial...