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    . . . a long-standing political and social activist. During the 1930s she was a financial supporter of the People's Press, a trade unionist news service later attacked as a Communist-front organization. . . . She worked with Alger Hiss's defense team during his trials, and became a friend and counselor of the Hiss family.