Harold Rosenwald (July 23, 1907 – March 9, 1990)[1] was an American lawyer, best known for working on the defense team of Alger Hiss during 1949 and in the prosecution of Louisiana governor Huey Long.
The peculiar vehemence of Mr. Rogge's lefts views finally caused him [Rosenwald] to leave the Justice Department.
[8] He received credit for his efforts in November 1936 when a court ordered 3,500 Illinois stockholders of a defunct Central Republic Bank to pay $12,500,000 as part of repayment on that loan.
[9] In 1939, Rosenwald again support Rogge, this time going after income tax cases in Louisiana related to Governor Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" program.
"[10] In April 1948, Rosenwald and John J. O'Niel were attorneys for a naval captain before the U.S. Supreme Court in "United States of America ex.
"[11] During the Hiss Case, Rosenwald was an attorney first in 1948 with Oseas, Pepper & Segal[12] and by 1950 with Beer, Richards, Lane and Haller[13] (also known as Oseas, Pepper & Siegel with offices in Washington and on Liberty Street, New York[14]) (from 1949 to 1957 called "Beer, Richards, Lane, Haller & Buttenwieser"[15][16]).
Cross led during Hiss's second trial later in 1949, Rosenwald's name appears on his defense team along with McLean and Robert von Mehren.
[24] When Allen Weinstein's Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case came out in 1978, it quoted Rosenwald about the psychological argument: The psychiatric theory has been criticized because it may be regarded as an unjustified smear of Chambers as a homosexual.
[25]In 1980, a review of John Lowenthal's documentary The Trials of Alger Hiss mentioned Rosenwald (along with Robert E. Stripling, Congressman F. Edward Hebert, the Rev.