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He was 25, an honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he ...
In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was ...
As the congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone’s mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger ...
IT is worth while taking some trouble to recognize the historical significance of the part played by Whittaker Chambers in the Hiss trial before reading Witness. For his own interpretation of it is ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Alger Hiss was an Official for the Department of State with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1948 House Committee. Communist Party Member ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Whittaker Chambers was a Senior Editor for the Time Magazine with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1948 House Committee. Communist Party ...