Alger Hiss, plaintiff vs. Whittaker Chambers, defendant. 1948-1949.

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Alger Hiss, plaintiff vs. Whittaker Chambers, defendant. 1948-1949.

Contains depositions of Chambers, taken on Nov. 4, 5, 16, and 17, 1948 and Feb. 17, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland.

3 v. (1382 leaves) ; 28 cm.

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United States. District Court (Maryland)

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U.S. district and circuit courts were created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 under the authority of the constitutional provision that the judicial power of the United States be vested in a Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Congress may establish. The Judiciary Act provided that these courts were to have original jurisdiction in cases involving crimes, remedies of common law, and aliens suing for a tort. The district courts were to have exclusive original cognizance of c...

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...

Zeligs, Meyer Aaron, 1909-1978.

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Chambers, Whittaker

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