Alger Hiss collection, 1934-1979.

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Alger Hiss collection, 1934-1979.

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Correspondence, proceedings of House Un-American Activities Committee (13 v., 1948), transcripts and copies of documents (1948-1949) relating to Alger Hiss's libel suit against Whittaker Chambers in which Marbury served as Hiss's attorney, transcripts of Hiss's subsequent perjury trial, and government publications (1948) on communist activities in the U.S.

8 boxes.

Maryland historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7258214

Maryland historical society

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Chambers, Whittaker

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Hiss, Alger

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Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...

Marbury, William L. (William Luke), 1901-

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Supporter and committee member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. From the description of Oral history interview, 1977. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32821943 Lawyer; interviewee d.1988. From the description of Reminiscences of William L. Marbury : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608669 Lawyer, of Baltimore, Md. From the description of Alger Hiss collection, 1934...