Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show the extent to which he is a part of the Truman-Hiss-Achosen-Lattimore group...
...Wisconsin Senator said Stevenson's deposition on Alger Hiss during the first Hiss perjury trial would not be an important part of the broadcast...
...found guilty." Last week 22 lawyers, some of them Republicans and Eisenhower supporters, came to his defense. So did the pro-Eisenhower New York Times. Said the lawyers: "The governor . . . did what any good citizen should have done . . ." The Democrats pointed out that Republican John Foster Dulles had endorsed Hiss for the presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Truman was not the only one responsible for the fouls. Both Eisenhower and Nixon were equally as guilty. Nixon cried that Stevenson was an unworthy candidate because "he had gone down the line" for Alger Hiss. Completely ignoring the facts--that a United States Marshal was sent to the Governor to request a deposition and that Stevenson answered honestly what he and others had thought of Hiss--Nixon irresponsibly tried to make a commendable act seem a treacherous alliance...
...despair, and following, as it happens, twelve years of Republican administration." Then, many Americans became discouraged with capitalism, and nearly a million, in 1932, voted "against the capitalist system."*It was at that time, said Stevenson in an interpolation to his prepared text, "that some persons like Alger Hiss and Elizabeth Bentley, witnessing the devastation of capitalism and the menacing rise of Hitler, became entangled in the Communist conspiracy...