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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been typed on the Hiss typewriter; he could tell by the formations of the letter "G" for example. "You can look at all the 'Gs' you want," Stryker snorted, "they look good to me." He airily dismissed Mrs. Chambers' detailed testimony of homely intimacies between the two families. "You remember her," he said scornfully. "She sat there waving her hands as though she were priming a pump...
...reminded the jury of Pat Catlett's testimony that he had taken the Hiss typewriter to one of two Woodstock repair shops soon after the Hisses gave it to him-but one shop had not opened until May 1938, the other not until September 1938. "Those are facts you cannot change," said big Tom Murphy...
...Helen Sweatt, "was the real turning point of the case." The jury had been eight to four almost from the beginning. The leader of the holdouts for acquittal had been Foreman James-the man whom Murphy had singled out. But, said one juror, all twelve had agreed on two facts: that the documents were typed on the Hiss machine and that it was in the Hiss house during the critical months...
...Connecticut's municipal courts, the scales of justice teetered crazily. With two complete sets of judges on the job-those appointed by the last Republican regime and a new batch named by Democratic Governor Chester Bowles-the state had exactly twice as many judges as it could...
...Bowles's continuing war with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. A fortnight ago Bowles adjourned the legislature by proclamation, under a 131-year-old law never used before, to get the House out of his way. Then he appointed 129 judges and deputies to replace Republicans whose two-year terms were about to expire...