Word: hisses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alger Hiss put on trial in New York as a result of an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The "subversive" issue becomes prominent in the national consciousness...
...rise of "subversion" as an issue in the post-war decade has been interpreted by sociologists and political analysts in terms of groups reaction. The crisis atmosphere which prevailed, in varying degrees, from the Hiss investigation in 1948 to the Senate's censure of McCarthy in 1955 has been explained as the response of the United States to the new pressures of leadership in the cold war world; as the reaction of the nouveaux riches to the insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest...
...same year that Red-Ucators appeared, Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the Law Review and a protege of Felix Frankfurter. When he went to Washington as a federal administrator, Hiss, like countless servants of the New Deal, symbolized Harvard to the nation. And, when he was convicted of perjury, the real charge in the public mind was espionage, and the University was viewed...
...approach Coolidge's longevity, and although he and Coolidge comprised the Corporation's Special Committee to study the Fury Case, he seems to have followed his colleague's lead. A descendant of the plaintiff in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marbury was a Baltimore lawyer and personal friend of Alger Hiss. In fact, one reason for his unsureness in the Furry case was a disappointment with the outcome of Hiss's trial and a belief that the convicted perjurer had lied even to his closest friends. Such a view made him suspicious towards other leftists, including Furry...
WOODSTOCK, N.Y., Woodstock Playhouse: Little Mary Sunshine (coy heroine) is threatened (egads) with foreclosure (hiss), but (just in time) her hero comes to the rescue. ANDOVER, N.J., Gristmill Musical Playhouse: Damn Yankees still keeps bringing them in even though the real-life Yankees seem to have gone to the devil...