Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the Communist Party?" "Yes, I have, Mr. Morris," said Weyl firmly, and the room quieted to attentive silence. A few moments later reporters were scribbling: as a member of a Communist cell in Washington in 1934, Nathaniel Weyl swore that he attended secret Communist meetings with Alger Hiss, and saw Hiss pay his party dues...
...committee stated: "With individuals like Professors Struik and Mather teaching in our leading universities, your committee wonders who the Professors Struiks were at Harvard who led Alger Hiss along the road of communism until he committed espionage against his country...
...Saturday Evening Post this week, they hardly recognized the magazine. For the first time since 1899, the Post (circ. 3,998,158) had no picture on its cover. Instead, it carried an announcement of "One of the Great Books of Our Time: Whittaker Chambers' Own Story of the Hiss Case." The Post thought Chambers' Witness so important that it had paid $75,000 for serial rights to the book, due to be published in May and already a Book-of-the-Month Club choice. The Post, which calls its series "'I Was the Witness" will...
Chambers, a onetime senior editor of TIME, has been writing his book and working on his Maryland farm since 1950, when his testimony convicted Hiss of perjury. His story begins with an eloquent letter to his teen-aged son and daughter, who did not learn of his past as a Communist courier until the Hiss case opened with his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. In the letter, Chambers explains to them-and to the world-why he became a Communist, why he left the party in 1938 and what the real issues were in the Hiss trials...
...Without God. "I was a witness. I do not mean a witness for the Government or against Alger Hiss ... A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something ... It was my fate to be, in turn, a witness to each of the great faiths of our time...