Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last meeting between them took place in March 1976 in the office of Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, 21 floors above Manhattan's East 50th Street. After a few minutes of uneasy conversation, Weinstein told Hiss: "When I began working on this book four years ago, I thought I would be able to demonstrate your innocence, but, unfortunately, I have to tell you that I cannot; that my assumption was wrong." Hiss shifted slightly, looked beyond Weinstein and said: "I'm not surprised." Later he added: "I've always known you were prejudiced against me." When the meeting ended, Weinstein told...
...interview with Bell, Weinstein said simply: "In the end, Chambers' version turned out to be truthful, and Hiss's version did not. Alger Hiss is a victim of the facts...
This judgment will not go unchallenged; when Weinstein published an article in the New York Review of Books almost two years ago detailing some of his findings, he stirred up a row, and his book is certain to do the same. For three decades, Hiss has waged a campaign for vindication, and next month he intends to ask the courts again for a new trial on the ground that the prosecution withheld vital evidence from...
...Hiss lately has been winning new sympathizers?some as a result of his son Tony's apologia, Laughing Last, and some who look on him as Richard Nixon's first victim. Ironically, Weinstein's book also discredits Nixon's performance, demonstrating that as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he actually fell apart at critical points during the investigation...
Before Chambers' charges of espionage cut him down, Hiss had seemed headed for a great future; some associates even thought he was a potential Secretary of State. One of the New Deal's bright young men, he worked briefly for the Agriculture Department and the Nye committee, which was investigating the arms manufacturers of World War I, and then joined the State Department. In the 1940s he rose almost effortlessly as a protege of Secretary Edward Stettinius and his deputy, Dean Acheson, serving as an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta conference and as Secretary-General of the founding...