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Article: Alger Hiss.(Editorial)(Obituary)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- December 9, 1996
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In Act One, the Republican right tried to use Whittaker Chambers's allegations against Alger Hiss to discredit the entire New Deal. Here was Hiss, the prototypical hot dog--a Harvard Law graduate recommended for his clerkship with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes by Felix Frankfurter, F.D.R.'s number-one headhunter. An alumnus of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, a New Deal invention, he was present et Yalta and at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco--all institutions and events closely identified with the Roosevelt Administration. Chambers, with his gift for melodrama, egged on by the ambitious young House Un-American Activities Committee member ...
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