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  1. Priscilla Hiss (October 13, 1903 – October 14, 1984), born Priscilla Fansler and first married as Priscilla Hobson, was a 20th-century American teacher and book editor, best known as the wife of Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist and former State Department official whose innocence she supported with testimony throughout his two ...

  2. 15 de oct. de 1984 · Priscilla Hiss, the wife of Alger Hiss, who steadfastly defended her husband at his two trials for perjury, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 81...

  3. 17 de oct. de 1984 · Priscilla Hiss, 81, who maintained the innocence of her husband, Alger Hiss, despite his 1950 conviction for lying to conceal Communist espionage, died Oct. 14 at St. Vincent's Hospital in New...

  4. 13 de feb. de 1978 · Feb. 13, 1978. On a crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready...

  5. Records show that Priscilla Hiss withdrew $400 from the couple's joint savings account in November 1937. The Hisses testified that they withdrew the money to buy furniture for a new apartment, but they had not signed a lease for a new apartment at the time of the withdrawal.

  6. A cross the abyss of a dozen years, Alger and Priscilla Hiss made their careful and precise defense to the accusations of Whittaker and Esther Chambers. Step by step, four quiet, middle-aged...

  7. He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year-old son. In 1933, after practicing law in Boston, he got a job as an attorney in Henry Wallace’s ...