Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climactic moment, and the author's dabs of history and inveterate name-dropping no longer slow the action in the tension of the hearing. This is not to say, however, that his comments of PM (Which he left because it "continuously yielded to communist pressure"), on the Hiss case ("I accept Chambers' basic account of events"), or on Henry Wallace (The Communists have taken a lot of credulous men for a ride. Wallace seemed anxious to step on the accelerater himself") did not greatly enrich the book, Much of the autobiography includes this interesting rambling of a mind that...
Also there is Lee Pressman, who admitted membership in the Communist Party, and Alger Hiss who has since been convicted...
...Parole Board in Washington announced that it had once more considered the parole application of Perjurer Alger Hiss, again agreed to deny...
...Alger Hiss, 49, went to Washington as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, was an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta, and was secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences which gave birth to the United Nations. Against this bright star of the New Deal, Whittaker Chambers made a shocking accusation: Hiss was a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to make his charges without immunity. Chambers did, and they were tested in court. Hiss is now in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg...
...Scramble. "From the Hiss case we may perhaps date the beginning not only of the excessive power and renown of many Johnny-come-lately antiCommunists, but on the other side, what might be thought of as a new united front in some liberal colleges and universities, admission to which is gained by denouncing 'witch hunts' and refusing to cooperate with them ... In some colleges, professors who testify before the Velde or Jenner committees with dignity and restraint (often educating committee members in the process, as Hiss so notably failed to do) are slandered as appeasers. To the extent...