Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whittaker Chambers and Algeu Hiss had been silhouetted dimly for ten months against smoky fires which smoldered at the foundations of state. The baleful glow did not light them sharply; as they swayed and grappled it was only possible to tell that they were locked in a strange and merciless combat and that one, or both, would inevitably suffer a total and deathlike disgrace...
Last week the Hiss-Chambers case was formally brought before a bar of justice in a Manhattan federal courtroom. In a strictly legal sense, only Alger Hiss was on trial. But in a larger sense both men were equally involved, and the court was simply a well-lighted arena in which they could fight their duel before their fellow citizens with weapons provided...
...Lied." Hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), brown-mustached Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy rose to make his opening statement as undramatically as if he were reading a directors' report. He spoke dispassionately: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss was a simple one-just a matter of two counts of perjury before a grand jury...
After casting doubt on the political loyalty of one William Benton, Hughes says that Professor Chafee, American delegate to the United Nations subcommittee on freedom of information and of the press, had been suggested for the post by Benton. He also attempts to link Chafee's name to Alger Hiss...
Stephen M Schwebel '50 was elected last night to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the United Nations. Among other members of the Executive Committee are Summer Welles and Alger Hiss...