Word: crosleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiss in a Communist elite corps, charged with infiltrating high Government offices (TIME, Aug. 16). Hiss had unequivocally denied that he was ever a Communist or that he had ever known Chambers. But last week he admitted that he had indeed known Chambers-although under the name of George Crosley (a pseudonym Chambers could not remember ever having used). The background of his admission made the most fascinating story of the hearings to date...
...point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...
According to Hiss, "Crosley" was a free-lance writer who had come to him when he was an investigator for the Nye Committee (which investigated the munitions industry during 1934 and 1935). Crosley had asked for help and material in preparing a series of articles. The next summer, Hiss went on, he had sublet his apartment to Crosley, since he had already moved into a house on Georgetown's P Street. Because Crosley also needed a car, said Hiss, he made his old Ford a part of the deal...
...whole episode had ended unpleasantly a few months later, Hiss concluded. Crosley had never paid any rent and Hiss had broken off with him. Since then, he had never seen Crosley again and at no time did he know that Crosley was a Communist. He remembered him only as a deep-voiced man with bad teeth...
Poor Moods. Reading over the testimony that night, Nixon decided that Crosley and Whittaker Chambers must be the same man. Next morning a subcommittee decided on an immediate face-to-face meeting between Chambers and Alger Hiss. They hurriedly telephoned both to meet the subcommittee that afternoon in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel...