American Decades
"Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men"
Newspaper article
By: Robert G. Whalen
Date: December 12, 1948
Source: Whalen, Robert G. "Hiss and Chambers, Strange Story of Two Men." The New York Times, December 12, 1948, sec. 4, p. 6.
About the Author: Robert G. Whalen (1913–1969) was an editor for The New York Times. He often wrote anonymously and was little known outside the paper, though he had published articles in Reader's Digest and Scholastic Magazine before coming to the Times. He edited the Times's "Week in Review" column and acted as assistant to the Sunday editor. At the time of his death from cancer in 1969 he was known among colleagues for his fairness and pioneering use of "perspective" journalism.
Introduction
Alger Hiss was seen by many as the embodiment of the liberal establishment. He clerked for Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.;...
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1940's Law and Justice Primary Sources
- Gobitas Perspectives
- U.S. v. Darby
- Executive Order 8802
- Japanese Internment and the Law
- Wickard v. Filburn
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Smith v. Allwright
- Executive Order 9835
- Shelley v. Kraemer
- Executive Order 9981
- "Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men"
- "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
