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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Stumps | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Senate Executive Expenditures Committee and two other Congressional groups trumpeted that they would start investigating the five-percenters. That was a big job, since anyone who had kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Five-Percenters | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...very word "commencement" is supposed to symbolize the emergence of youth from its educational incubator into the great and stimulating battle of life, and as such it is generally regarded as a joyous occasion. Every June countless orators use graduation ceremonies to acclaim endlessly the ever widening vistas of creative opportunity that stretch before their young audiences. In short, commencement time is ruthlessly exploited to revive and expand the American dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toll for the Brave | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...even in this "glance," we have found that since the end of World War 11, 39 professor have been dismissed or placed on probation, or have resigned; and that there has been legislation in 30 states affecting countless thousands of students and faculty members. We have discovered a total of 40 instances involving professors, students, visiting speakers, and legislative actions, spread over 19 states and the District of Columbia...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, David E. Lilienthal jr., and John G. Simon, S | Title: Academic Freedom---Crimson Report | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

Died. Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 62, Canadian-born pulp fic-tioneer; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Able to keep five manuscripts boiling at the same time, Bedford-Jones ground out 100 novels, countless short stories, estimated that by writing fast, instead of well, he had earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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