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Some of my best friends are Stanleys and I have yet to see or hear one belch. The main burner may pop back or get to moanin' low if the fire is turned on too soon; she might sizzle, hiss or tick a little as the pressure rises; you might hear a soft "wuff-wuff" as a Steamer passes; there could even be a slight thumping if a pump bearing were worn. But belching! You might better have said "The Silent Stanley Steamer...
...failure of this Administration to deal effectively with the Communist threat," said Nixon, in earnest and subdued tones, is the "greatest issue in the election." To demonstrate the failure, Nixon retold the story of the Hiss case: Whittaker Chambers' first accusation, the confrontation of the two men, Alger Hiss's admission, after twelve days of denial, that he had known Chambers after all. Nixon outlined the Administration's attempts to "cover up" the case, including an executive order by President Truman, forbidding "the FBI ... to cooperate with the Committee [on Un-American Activities] in its investigation...
...recalled that Harry Truman had called the Hiss case a red herring "not only once, but seven different times." Beginning in 1939, Chambers again & again warned Government officials that Hiss and others were Communists. The Government did nothing "except to promote the members of the ring," said Nixon. If the Government had acted, "we might have nipped the Communist conspiracy in the bud;" other Communist agents might have been prevented from stealing atomic information which gave Russia the bomb five years before they might have...
Dean Griswold, in answer to a question from the audience at last night's Law School Forum, bitterly criticized Senator Nixon's attack on Governor Stevenson's deposition in the Hiss case...
Stevenson testified as to the good reputation of Alger Hiss, who graduated from the Law School...