Word: hisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General Tom Clark who boasted a fortnight ago that "under President Truman more topnotch Communists have been convicted than during our entire...
Inside the bar, gaunt-faced and intent, with his wife beside him, Defendant Alger Hiss, charged with perjury, watched the conflict between his spectacular lawyer and the witness who would not be shaken...
...days after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he had gone to see Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and as a repentant man had urged that some action be taken to get Communists out of key places in the Government. He had named names then, among them Alger Hiss's. He had said nothing about the stolen documents in his possession. "Nevertheless, I gave him [Berle] to understand that there was an apparatus working in the Government." Nothing came of Chambers' charges...
...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 Department for the Russian...
...stricken from the record. The long-sought hour of martyrdom was at hand. The entire defense, counsel and defendants, was on its feet, roaring and waving its arms at the court. Judge Medina hastily ordered the jury from the room. U.S. marshals (some of them rushed down from the Hiss-Chambers trial two floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged yourself of contempt for a period...