Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeed Medina, Truman picked New York's big Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy, the prosecutor of Alger Hiss...
...questionnaire, which 61 percent of the class answered, sought options on subjects ranging from the Alger Hiss case to an evaluation of Harvard today. Members of the class were polled on the alterations in their religious beliefs since leaving Harvard, their political convictions, their marital statuses, the progress in their careers and their wives opinions of Harvard...
...Massachusetts Bar Association petitioned the state supreme court to "disbar, censure or suspend" Alger Hiss, disbarred in New York last year, and now in Lewisburg, Pa. prison serving a five-year sentence for perjury...
...students will read everything from Das Kapital to transcripts of the Hiss trial. They will interview local C.P. members and FBI men, write detailed term papers on local Communist-front activities and how they operate. Bouscaren's idea is not to turn his students into amateur counterspies, but to give them a firsthand look at "what we're fighting against." After all, says he, "we have compulsory courses in American institutions; I feel we should have one to tell about the threats to those institutions...
...blunt fact is that the most important post in Mr. Truman's Administration is filled by a man who does not enjoy general or congressional confidence. This ... is a serious matter ... It stems, of course, from Mr. Acheson's public expressions about Alger Hiss, especially his public citation of ... the Bible, which, in the light of Alger Hiss's refusal to come clean, was singularly inappropriate ... At home as well as abroad, he is a political deadweight...