Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief is safe enough. Hiss, undetected, would probably have done no harm whatever to this nation's prestige abroad. That was not the harm he was convicted of doing...
...meeting sponsored by the Kent (Conn.) League of Women Voters last week, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I believe that Alger Hiss, had he remained as head of the Carnegie Foundation without detection of his alleged treasonable act, would have done less harm to the cause of this nation's prestige abroad than [McCarthy Subcommittee Investigators] Schine and Cohn did in their junket through Europe...
...picture he presents of American life, manners and politics is, essentially, misleading. It does not matter that in the columns of the Manchester Guardian, Mr. Cooke should demonstrate mathematically that Mr. Stevenson must win the presidential election of 1952 . . . or that he should write a book in which Mr. Hiss is presented (except in the last few pages) as a kind of hero of our time. There are other newspapers and other books. On the air, however, there are not other voices ... I want others to be heard...
McCarthy's threat to investigate the guarded activities of CIA came to a head when he demanded that CIAman William P. Bundy be fired. His reason: Bundy, a son-in-law of Dean Acheson, had reportedly contributed $400 to the Alger Hiss defense fund...
...joined the Ike-for-President forces in 1951. He and his wife are personal friends of Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway. Strong's appointment was held up for 3½ months because of security investigations into reports that he had been socially acquainted with Alger Hiss...