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In violation of a condition of this employment,<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 24</ref> Hiss [[marriage|married]] the former Mrs. [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/hobson.bio.html Thayer Hobson] (''née'' Priscilla Fansler), a supporter of perennial [[Socialist]] Party [[presidential]] candidate [[Norman Thomas]].<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 457</ref> Hiss had met her on a transatlantic cruise when he was nineteen,<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 11</ref> but since then she'd had a [[marriage]], a [[Mexican]] [[divorce]],<ref>[[#refZeligs80|Meyer Zeligs Papers]] (October 13, 1963), Harvard Law School Library Special Collections, cited in Ivan Chen, [http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ivan_chen Alger Hiss, 1926-1929], p. 31</ref> a pregnancy by a married man and an [[abortion]].<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 158-159</ref> Hiss went on to prestigious<ref>[[#refHK06|Haynes, Klehr 2006]]: 97. Hiss joined Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston; [[#refMHSL|after two years he moved to]] Cotton & Franklin in New York.</ref> [http://img.tfd.com/WEAL/weal_05_img0977.jpg law firms] in [[Boston]] and [[New York City|New York]].

In violation of a condition of this employment,<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 24</ref> Hiss [[marriage|married]] the former Mrs. [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/hobson.bio.html Thayer Hobson] (''née'' Priscilla Fansler), a supporter of perennial [[Socialist]] Party [[presidential]] candidate [[Norman Thomas]].<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 457</ref> Hiss had met her on a transatlantic cruise when he was nineteen,<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 11</ref> but since then she'd had a [[marriage]], a [[Mexican]] [[divorce]],<ref>[[#refZeligs80|Meyer Zeligs Papers]] (October 13, 1963), Harvard Law School Library Special Collections, cited in Ivan Chen, [http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ivan_chen Alger Hiss, 1926-1929], p. 31</ref> a pregnancy by a married man and an [[abortion]].<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 158-159</ref> Hiss went on to prestigious<ref>[[#refHK06|Haynes, Klehr 2006]]: 97. Hiss joined Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston; [[#refMHSL|after two years he moved to]] Cotton & Franklin in New York.</ref> [http://img.tfd.com/WEAL/weal_05_img0977.jpg law firms] in [[Boston]] and [[New York City|New York]].

[[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'']]By 1932, Priscilla Hiss had [[#refChronology|registered as a member]] of [[#refNoe9|the Socialist Party]],<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27</ref> and was an active member of American Labor Associates. Alger was becoming "[[#refChronology|radicalized]],"<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref> joining (together with [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]])<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27</ref> the International Juridical Association (IJA), which "consistently followed the [[Communist Party]] line."<ref>"[http://ia360638.us.archive.org/2/items/reportonnational1950unit/reportonnational1950unit.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</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'']]By 1932, Priscilla Hiss had [[#refChronology|registered as a member]] of [[#refNoe9|the Socialist Party]],<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27</ref> and was an active member of American Labor Associates. Alger was becoming "[[#refChronology|radicalized]],"<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref> joining (together with [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]])<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 27</ref> the International Juridical Association (IJA), which "consistently followed the [[Communist Party]] line."<ref>"[http://ia360638.us.archive.org/2/items/reportonnational1950unit/reportonnational1950unit.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>

During this period, Hiss's letters to his wife reflected his increasing [[radical|radicalism]]. In 1930, he made a coy reference to [[#refNYT9.5.1918|the terrorist]]<ref>Moments after the sentencing of [[#refNARAcities|95 Wobbies]] (including Haywood) 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|socialistic]] (I couldn't bring myself to write '[[Communist|Communistic]]') 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>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=14B3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, pp. 140-141</ref>

During this period, Hiss's letters to his wife reflected his increasing [[radical|radicalism]]. In 1930, he made a coy reference to [[#refNYT9.5.1918|the terrorist]]<ref>Moments after the sentencing of [[#refNARAcities|95 Wobbies]] (including Haywood) 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|socialistic]] (I couldn't bring myself to write '[[Communist|Communistic]]') 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>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=14B3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, pp. 140-141</ref>