Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alger Hiss got an idea what it means to be a Harvard graduate in his trials for perjury when proceptor Thomas F. Murphy made remarks like the above to emphasize the "implausibility" of parts of Hiss' story. Murphy kept referring to Hiss as "this Harvard Law Review man" and never stressed the point that Hiss had attended Johns Hopkins College and only had been at Harvard Law School...
...spite of the business at the Hiss trial, a Harvard degree usually means less to a man who went to college at some other place. But there is a Law School Association that is quite active and a number of Business School clubs...
...quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
...conviction of Alger Hiss...
...Generation on Trial, by Alistair Cooke. A look at the trials of Alger Hiss, through the clear eyes of Journalist Cooke (TIME, Sept...