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Speakers will be Victor Lasky, author of a book on the Alger Hiss case, W. E. Mullins, political editor of the Boston Herald, and Hal Clancy, City Editor of the Boston Traveler. Professor John T. McNaughton of the Law School will serve as moderator...
RADAR SPY LEADER; RADAR WITNESS BREAKS DOWN: WILL TELL ALL ABOUT SPY RING AND MONMOUTH FIGURE LINKED TO HISS RING...
Armed with his Hiss case success, Nixon ran for the Senate in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, and won by a 680,947-vote margin...
...crack was: "The country can probably survive it as long as Ike lives out his term, but the thought of Nixon being one heartbeat from the Presidency is terrifying." Much of the anti-Nixon feeling stemmed, consciously or unconsciously, from the resentment of those who were wrong about Alger Hiss when Nixon was right...
Quick were newsmen to look at the record. The record: at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman...