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August 1, 1948 (Sunday)

August 2, 1948 (Monday)

August 3, 1948 (Tuesday)

August 4, 1948 (Wednesday)

August 5, 1948 (Thursday)

August 6, 1948 (Friday)

August 7, 1948 (Saturday)

August 8, 1948 (Sunday)

August 9, 1948 (Monday)

August 10, 1948 (Tuesday)

August 11, 1948 (Wednesday)

August 12, 1948 (Thursday)

August 13, 1948 (Friday)

August 14, 1948 (Saturday)

August 15, 1948 (Sunday)

August 16, 1948 (Monday)

August 17, 1948 (Tuesday)

August 18, 1948 (Wednesday)

August 19, 1948 (Thursday)

August 20, 1948 (Friday)


August 21, 1948 (Saturday)

August 22, 1948 (Sunday)

August 23, 1948 (Monday)

August 24, 1948 (Tuesday)

August 25, 1948 (Wednesday)

August 26, 1948 (Thursday)

August 27, 1948 (Friday)

August 28, 1948 (Saturday)

August 29, 1948 (Sunday)

August 30, 1948 (Monday)

August 31, 1948 (Tuesday)

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Alger Hiss was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before the trial Hiss was involved in the establishment of the United Nations, both as a US State Department official and as a UN official. In later life, he worked as a lecturer and author.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee Pressman</span> American lawyer

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John Jacob Abt was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a member of the Communist Party and the Soviet spy network "Ware Group" as alleged by Whittaker Chambers.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nathan Witt</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">May 1948</span> Month of 1948

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Charles Prescott Trussell was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. His front-page bylines in The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times were familiar to generations of newspaper readers. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1949.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kasenkina Case</span> 1948 Cold War political scandal in New York

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