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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...
...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...
...curious crowd packed the paneled, 17th-floor room where three judges of the U.S. circuit court of appeals sat; many had to be turned away. The appeals arguments were technical and lengthy, 125 pp., for Alger Hiss's case, 66 for the Government. For three hours, Hiss's counsel and a Government lawyer made their points, answered questions from the court. Then court adjourned, and the Hisses silently made their way through the crowds to the street and disappeared, to endure another long wait. It will be months before the case is finally settled. The appeals court will...