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...controls. He asked New York City's Police Commissioner Tom Murphy to take it on-if not permanently, at least long enough to get the ball rolling. But Commissioner Murphy, who had never gotten the federal judgeship he expected as a reward for his successful prosecution of the Hiss case,* was in no mood to rush to the Administration's rescue this time. Said Murphy, after declining: "I was flattered ... but I have a job to do as Police Commissioner in New York City...
...choice Senate investigating subcommittee (which last year investigated the five-percenters in Washington and homosexuals in the State Department). In her place he put California's freshman Senator Richard Nixon, who made his mark on the House Un-American Activities Committee as the man who brought down Alger Hiss. Margaret Smith was banished to the subcommittee on reorganization, with little to do but look into any executive plans for implementing the Hoover Commission recommendations...
...after another, through the same Manhattan courtroom where Alger Hiss first came to trial, paraded the witnesses in the trial of William Remington, onetime Department of Commerce economist who quit his job last year to avoid being fired. The charge was the same: perjury. Remington had told a grand jury that he had never been a Communist. Behind the formal charge was the same, even graver accusation that Remington had passed on Government secrets to a Red spy ring...
...final attempt to save himself from a five-year prison sentence, Alger Hiss appealed last week to the Supreme Court to set aside his conviction, because, among other things, Whittaker Chambers had "fabricated" the evidence against...
Some Chinese were so rash as to hiss this sort of thing. Their Commie newspapers told them this was not the line to take. The new line: "We must strongly imitate the Russian athletes' high internationalism, patriotism and collectivism . . . and conquer unhealthy American imperialist sport styles of seeking for headlines." And winning teams...