Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Alger Hiss became eligible for parole. The former U.S. State Department official had completed 20 months of his five-year sentence for perjury. (He was convicted on two counts, the chief one being that he lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not give secret U.S. documents to Whittaker Chambers.) The U.S. Parole Board, which had 50,000 pro & con letters and a report on Hiss from the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., met to consider the case. This week the board announced its decision: parole denied, unanimously...
...Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...
...Students at Harvard do not evaluate the material they are taught. The result is they are being indoctrinated with much left-wing theory of a color to match Harvard's crimson," she stated. "I believe this is even more true today than when Harvard was turning out Hiss, Jessup, Acheson, the Service Boys, and Lattimore," she concluded in the letter...
...Cmon you guys," he'll hiss. "You're as good as those clowns. Get out there and show them up." This latter with a contemptuous wave at the varsity defense. And the J.V.'s promptly roar through the first-stringers...
...protagonists of a far-from-forgotten drama made news. In the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., Alger Hiss, having served nearly a third of his five year sentence, applied for parole. Whittaker Chambers, meanwhile, was in a Baltimore hospital, after a heart attack suffered on Election...