Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many reasons for the Democratic propagandists' concentration on Nixon. The most obvious is the political disadvantage of attacking a figure as popular as Eisenhower. Normal party antagonism has to find an outlet; Nixon has been it. Many liberal Democrats who changed their minds about the Alger Hiss case never stopped resenting the fact that Congressional Investigator Nixon arrived early at the conclusion they reached much later or that in the campaign Nixon most effectively pressed home the point that Adlai Stevenson was a character witness (by deposition) for Hiss at his first trial in 1952 and again...
...Manhattan, Alger Hiss, 50, reported for the last time to his parole officer. But as a convicted felon, onetime Lawyer Hiss can no longer vote, run for public office or practice...
...hear of one of its stalwarts . . . fleeing the States like Bill O'Dwyer or going to jail like Mayor Curley. What have they ever contributed to compare with good old Mayor Hague, Ed Crump, Tom Pendergast, el al., or good staunch Democrats like Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Lamar Caudle ? . . . Even the President's son is a reactionary-he foolishly got rank in the Army by going to West Point and being a Second Looy...
...sensational prosecutions of ex-Communists, which have so much engaged the attention of the public, such as those of Hiss and Remington, have resulted from a denial of party membership. The usual response of a congressional committee to a witness who admits past membership, asserts he has left the party, and identifies his former associates, is to thank and praise him. If there is a single instance of prosecution under the Smith Act following such testimony, Dean Griswold does not mention...
Died. Henry Warren Goddard, 79, retired U.S. judge, who was appointed by President Harding to New York's Southern District bench in 1923, presided over more than 1,000 cases in 31 years, including the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss in 1949-50; of a heart attack; on a golf course in Madison, Conn...