Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiss Trial...
Your fine story of the Alger Hiss trial [TIME, July 18] ... is a credit to American journalism and presents a completely clear picture of the entire case...
...believe in ignoring facts. How the four jurors who voted against conviction could choose to ignore those three proven facts of the case is much more than I can understand. What did they want before they voted for conviction? . . . Maybe some gremlins from the Kremlin used Hiss's typewriter, without his knowledge, of course...
...Your story on the Hiss trial wrapped the whole subject up for me, after weeks of frustrated wondering what it was all about. . . . Can you tell me why my newspapers quoted so sparely from those summation speeches? I could make neither head nor tail of the trial from their accounts...
...Dewey-of accepting $186,146 in loans or bribes from litigants in his court. * Among them: permitting a defense psychiatrist to sit in court, conspicuously watching Chambers while he was on the stand; allowing Stryker to question Chambers about a suicide in his family, but barring similar testimony about Hiss's family...