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[[Image:American-cities-125.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Bombing of the Federal building, Chicago, moments after [[#refNARAcities|95 Wobblies]] were convicted there, 1918. ''Source: National Archives and Records Administration'']][[#refMHSL|Two years later]], Hiss followed his wife to [[New York City|New York]], where she had obtained a grant from the [http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ Carnegie Foundation], sister organization of the [http://www.carnegieendowment.org/ Carnegie Endowment], of which Alger would later serve as president. Hiss joined the [http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2005/toa_sepoct05.msp white shoe firm]<ref>Nancy Lisagor and Frank Lipsius, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VHohAQAAIAAJ A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell]'' (Paragon House, 1989) ISBN 1557782393, p. 234</ref> Cotton, Franklin, Wright and Gordon.<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27. This firm is now known as [http://www.cahill.com/index.html Cahill, Gordon and Reindell, LLP].</ref>
 
[[Image:American-cities-125.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Bombing of the Federal building, Chicago, moments after [[#refNARAcities|95 Wobblies]] were convicted there, 1918. ''Source: National Archives and Records Administration'']][[#refMHSL|Two years later]], Hiss followed his wife to [[New York City|New York]], where she had obtained a grant from the [http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ Carnegie Foundation], sister organization of the [http://www.carnegieendowment.org/ Carnegie Endowment], of which Alger would later serve as president. Hiss joined the [http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2005/toa_sepoct05.msp white shoe firm]<ref>Nancy Lisagor and Frank Lipsius, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VHohAQAAIAAJ A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell]'' (Paragon House, 1989) ISBN 1557782393, p. 234</ref> Cotton, Franklin, Wright and Gordon.<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27. This firm is now known as [http://www.cahill.com/index.html Cahill, Gordon and Reindell, LLP].</ref>
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During this period, Hiss became "[[#refChronology|radicalized]]":<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref> In 1930, he made a coy reference to [[#refNYT9.5.1918|the terrorist]]<ref>On July 4, 1914, three IWW members were killed in New York when a bomb they were constructing exploded. The bomb also killed a woman in the next apartment, maimed many others, and destroyed the building. ("Anarchist bomb believed for Rockefeller kills three I.W.W. makers and a woman-injures many--wrecks tenement house," New York Sun, 5 July 1914, p. 1.) Moments after the sentencing of [[#refNARAcities|95 Wobbies]] (including Haywood) for a series of such acts, at the Chicago Federal Building in 1918, a bomb ripped through the building, [[#refNYT9.5.1918|killing four]]. Charles Howard McCormick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcvhrdr6drgC Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers]'' (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005) ISBN 0761831320, pp. 31-31</ref> [[Industrial Workers of the World]], writing to Priscilla, "[D]id thee call thyself a [[Industrial Workers of the World|Wobbly]] with an [[Industrial Workers of the World|I.W.W.]] tongue in thy [[socialist]]ic (I couldn't bring myself to write '[[Communist]]ic') cheek?" Suggesting that an article questioning the [[legitimacy]] of the existing “[[capitalist]] order”<ref>Archibald MacLeish, “To the Young Men of Wall Street,” ''Saturday Review'', January 16, 1932</ref> did not go far enough, Hiss wrote to Priscilla in 1932, “Has thee seen [[Archibald MacLeish]]'s article on [[capitalism]] in last week's ''Saturday Review''? [[Felix Frankfurter|Felix]] says it is soft thinking after [[Edmund Wilson|Wilson]].”<ref>[[#refHiss2000|T. Hiss 2000]]: 140-141</ref>
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During this period, Hiss became "[[#refChronology|radicalized]]":<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref> In 1930, he made a coy reference to [[#refNYT9.5.1918|the terrorist]]<ref>On July 4, 1914, three IWW members were killed in New York when a bomb they were constructing exploded. The bomb also killed a woman in the next apartment, maimed many others, and destroyed the building. ("Anarchist bomb believed for Rockefeller kills three I.W.W. makers and a woman-injures many--wrecks tenement house," New York Sun, 5 July 1914, p. 1.) Moments after the sentencing of [[#refNARAcities|95 Wobbies]] (including IWW boss [["Big Bill" Haywood]]) for a series of such acts, at the Chicago Federal Building in 1918, a bomb ripped through the building, [[#refNYT9.5.1918|killing four]]. Charles Howard McCormick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcvhrdr6drgC Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers]'' (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005) ISBN 0761831320, pp. 31-31</ref> [[Industrial Workers of the World]], writing to Priscilla, "[D]id thee call thyself a [[Industrial Workers of the World|Wobbly]] with an [[Industrial Workers of the World|I.W.W.]] tongue in thy [[socialist]]ic (I couldn't bring myself to write '[[Communist]]ic') cheek?" Suggesting that an article questioning the [[legitimacy]] of the existing “[[capitalist]] order”<ref>Archibald MacLeish, “To the Young Men of Wall Street,” ''Saturday Review'', January 16, 1932</ref> did not go far enough, Hiss wrote to Priscilla in 1932, “Has thee seen [[Archibald MacLeish]]'s article on [[capitalism]] in last week's ''Saturday Review''? [[Felix Frankfurter|Felix]] says it is soft thinking after [[Edmund Wilson|Wilson]].”<ref>[[#refHiss2000|T. Hiss 2000]]: 140-141</ref>
    
By that year, Priscilla [[#refNoe9|had registered]] as a member of the Socialist Party,<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 85</ref> serving (along with various "Communists, Socialists, and nonaffiliated radicals") on the Advisory Board of American Labor Associates;<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 86-87</ref> Alger, meanwhile (together with [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]]),<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27</ref> [[#refChronology|had joined]] the International Juridical Association (IJA),<ref>[[#refZeligs67|Zeligs 1967]]: 445</ref> which "consistently followed the [[Communist Party]] line."<ref>"[http://ia700408.us.archive.org/10/items/reportonnational1950unit/reportonnational1950unit_bw.pdf Report on the National Lawyers Guild, legal bulwark of the Communist Party]," Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress (1950), p. 12 (PDF p. 18)</ref>
 
By that year, Priscilla [[#refNoe9|had registered]] as a member of the Socialist Party,<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 85</ref> serving (along with various "Communists, Socialists, and nonaffiliated radicals") on the Advisory Board of American Labor Associates;<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 86-87</ref> Alger, meanwhile (together with [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]]),<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27</ref> [[#refChronology|had joined]] the International Juridical Association (IJA),<ref>[[#refZeligs67|Zeligs 1967]]: 445</ref> which "consistently followed the [[Communist Party]] line."<ref>"[http://ia700408.us.archive.org/10/items/reportonnational1950unit/reportonnational1950unit_bw.pdf Report on the National Lawyers Guild, legal bulwark of the Communist Party]," Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress (1950), p. 12 (PDF p. 18)</ref>
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