Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, the long-simmering "softness to Communists" issue finally came to full boil. Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV broadcast in which Richard Nixon detailed Adlai Stevenson's part as a character witness in the first Alger Hiss trial, and concluded: "His actions, his statements, his record disqualify him from leading . . . the fight against Communism at home and abroad . . ." Last week the Democrats launched a defense and counterattack...
...Cleveland, Adlai Stevenson set out to explain his testimony again and more fully than before. Said he: "I had known Alger Hiss briefly in 1933 ... I did not meet him again until twelve years later . . . He never entered my house and I never entered his. I saw him twice in the fall of 1947.1 have not seen him since...
...spring of 1949, I was requested by the lawyers for Alger Hiss to appear at his first trial and testify as to his reputation. I refused to do so because of the burden of my official duties. I was then requested to give a sworn statement, taken under order of the court...
...president of the American Bar Association, and J. Edward Lumbard, one of General Donovan's partners. The statement issued by Stevenson's defenders, said the 16, was "inaccurate and unsound" because it gave the impression that Stevenson was required by court order to testify in the Hiss trial. "That was not the fact," declared the 16. "Governor Stevenson was not under subpoena or otherwise required to testify ... The only reason that a court order of any kind was obtained was to permit Governor Stevenson to testify without attending the Hiss trial in person. In passing judgment on Governor...
...supports state conformity to international law, McCarthy paraphrased this to mean surrender to a super world government. The irrelevant issue of Reds in the U.N. was mixed in for good measure. In tying Stevenson to the I.P.R. he used phrases like "hidden files," "money from Moscow," "recommended by Alger Hiss" but refrained from quoting his "documentation." He referred to Stevenson as "Alger, I mean Adlai" etc., etc. The obvious attempt was to create a series of insinuations and inferences which might not stand individual examination but would combine to plant the Lingering Doubt in the mind of a listener...