Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feller was reportedly a close friend of Alger Hiss, who graduated from the Law School in 1929. Hiss is now in prison for perjury...
Under the last heading comes the question of softness to Communism, of which the confused deadlock of the Korean war was the most persuasive symptom and the Alger Hiss case was the most clinically revealing symptom...
...unified his bitterly divided party, defined his "crusade,'' and set out to pass the next test, in which the goal was 266 electoral votes. His campaign survived the Nixon crisis-stirred up partly out of hatred for the man who broke the Alger Hiss case-and turned an apparent setback into an advantage. It survived the egghead rebellion, the desertion of Ike by scores of intellectuals, journalists, Hollywoodians and other opinion makers...
...emotions and campaigns that it stirred up as among the most curious and tortured in American history, a brew into which the the most miscellaneous and contradictory passions were poured. What is one to make, for instance, of Truman attacked by liberals for the Government's prosecution of Hiss, and by reactionaries for being soft toward Communists? What is one to make of McCarthy, whose open lies and many-colored dishonesties have hardly been equaled in American history? What is one to make of the Republican Party which chides McCarthy for his methods, yet arranges for him to speak...
...cross-examination in the second Hiss trial, Dulles testified that Hiss's reputation had been very good at the time Hiss was appointed to the Carnegie Endowment...