Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point Hiss abruptly broke in. "I don't need to ask Mr. Whittaker Chambers any more questions. I am now perfectly prepared to identify this man as George Crosley ... on the basis of his own statement that he was in my apartment at the time when I saw he was there. If he had lost both eyes and taken his nose off I would be sure...
Chambers continued: "As I have testified before, I came to Washington as a . . . functionary of the American Communist Party. I was connected with the underground group of which Mr. Hiss was a member. Mr. Hiss and I became friends. To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Hiss himself suggested that I go [to his apartment] and I accepted gratefully. I brought no furniture, I might...
Later that night, Alger Hiss called a press conference in his Manhattan apartment at 22 East 8th Street. He insisted that his brief acquaintance with Crosley-Chambers did not in the least affect his complete denial of any dealings with Chambers as a fellow Communist. He was not and never had been a Communist, Hiss repeated. Said he: "I do not believe in Communism. I believe it is a menace to the United States." Thus it appeared that either Alger Hiss never was a Communist or, if he once was, still...
Greater Responsibility. Up until the confrontation at the Commodore there had been nothing to choose between the accusations of Whittaker Chambers and the indignant denials of Alger Hiss. Now, on one pivotal question, Chambers had turned out to be dead right and Hiss to be dead wrong...
...that, there seemed to be no record of any free-lance writer who used the name of George Crosley. Committee investigators, thumbing through old Washington files, could find no evidence that a lease had ever been made out to him. There was no title in his name for the Hiss car. Hiss himself admitted that he had never seen any of Crosley's articles (although Chambers had been writing regularly under his own name for the New Masses, where his picture appeared...