Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean, tight-lipped man in a neat brown suit presented himself in Federal Judge Henry Goddard's Manhattan courtroom. The judge said briefly: "You are surrendering to the marshal?" Said the lean man: "Yes, sir." A deputy marshal led Alger Hiss away to a detention cell...
...State Department, and, for a moment of front-page eminence, secretary general to the San Francisco founding convention of the United Nations. But he had never been so noteworthy in his public life as he had in his ultimate disgrace, when ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss's treason...
Last week 46-year-old Alger Hiss walked through the bleak ruin of his life. His wife Priscilla was not with him. From Judge Goddard's paneled courtroom he went downstairs to the courthouse garage, handcuffed to Edward Jones, a petty mail thief. A crowd of photographers surrounded him, to catch this final incident. A deputy marshal asked him if he minded. The mail thief hid his face, but Alger Hiss said calmly: "If this is what you want, it's all right with me." Then he was loaded into a prison van with Jones and half...
...dignified law chambers of Foley Square had never seen anything like it-even during the dramatic trials of Alger Hiss or the Communist Party hierarchy. Curious spectators stood for hours in pushing lines for seats to the small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver...
...Eugene Griffin on "leftist" at Harvard has appeared in the Tribune for the last three years. Griffin last spring stated that the University was losing alumni gifts because of the faculty's left wingers and the notoriety brought to the name of Harvard by such former students as Alger Hiss...