Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Government was going to put Chambers on the stand-there he would tell "in most explicit fashion" how Hiss had given him secret documents in 1937 and 1938. The jury would be shown 47 of them; Chambers would testify that Hiss brought documents home at night from his office...
His tale of the meeting between Colonel Bykov and Hiss was in the best spy-thriller tradition: the meeting took place in a Brooklyn movie theater and the trio then moved surreptitiously to a Chinatown cafée. There, according to Chambers, Hiss agreed to get documents from the State...
"Alger Hiss," he cried, "was good enough for Oliver Wendell Holmes, and...I shall summon, with all due reverence, the shade of that greatest member of the Supreme Court of the United States"" The defense attorney went on dramatically ticking off the "fiery crucibles" in which Hiss had represented the...
She was graduated from Wellesley in 1930, went on to take a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She taught at Manhattan's progressive Dalton Schools, later became the first woman teacher in the history department of New York's City College. She later became an assistant professor at Brooklyn...
Snakes' Chase. Even so, the critics could find nothing but good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management...