Max Lowenthal
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Max Lowenthal was a Washington, DC, political figure in all three branches of the federal government in the 1930s and 1940s, during which time he was closely associated with the rising career of Harry
Max Lowenthal in his Washington office (1939)
Logo of the Russian-American Industrial Corporation, brainchild of Sidney Hillman.
George Woodward Wickersham.
Former U.S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler served as Lowenthal's counsel before HUAC in 1950
John Lowenthal
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John Lowenthal was a 20th-century American lawyer, civil servant, law professor, and documentary filmmaker, who defended the name and reputation of family friend Alger Hiss almost all his life.
Max Lowenthal
…a secondhand source in the White House. Lowenthal was married to Eleanor Mack, niece of Judge Julian Mack. They had three children: David (1923–2018), John (1925–2003) and Elizabeth (Betty) (1927–2022). On September 15, 1950, Lowenthal told HUAC that he kept homes at 467 West Central Park in Manhattan and…
Lowenthal helped defend Alger Hiss (here at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons)
Harry S. Truman, for whom Lowenthal worked briefly, with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at Potsdam (July 1945)
Alger Hiss (1948), lifelong friend of the Lowenthals
Alexander Vassiliev.