case, and many prominent liberals of the day, Hiss maintained that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted unjustly. In 1929, Hiss married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, a Bryn Mawr graduate and grade school teacher. Priscilla, previously married to Thayer Hobson , had a three-year-old son, Timothy. Hiss and Priscilla had known each other before