Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former State Department expert on Latin America, asserts Woltman, had been linked by testimony with the Alger Hiss inquiry. Friends of Duggan have strongly defended him against all attacks on his reputation...
...World War II industrial circus staged by Cleveland's upstart manufacturers Jack & Heintz Inc., U.S. business men never quite knew whether to hiss or cheer Ringmaster Bill Jack. He both be wildered and fascinated them with his free meals, free massages, free Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...
...date of McCarthy's emergence is important to an understanding of "McCarthyism." Alger Hiss had been convicted two weeks before, and four days after the trial's end, Dean Acheson made his statement: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss...
Throughout the investigation of Communists in Government, Truman, Acheson & Co. gave the impression that they thought the whole thing was nonsense. Truman called the Hiss case "a red herring." To this day, neither Truman nor Acheson has ever expressed a sense of outrage over Reds in Washington comparable to the indignation that Truman last week poured on Joe McCarthy...
...Afterglow. When the public read the evidence in the Hiss case and other revelations made around that time, it did not think that all the accusations about Communism were nonsense. It expected some housecleaning-or at least an official admission that the house had been a bit dirty. Truman stubbornly continued to resist such suggestions. When Acheson made his smug statement on Hiss, he set up the pins for McCarthy...