Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PRINCETON, N.J., April 25--On the eve of Alger Hiss' controversial appearance here tomorrow night, about 500 students greeted a bitter attack on Princeton University trustees with jeers and laughter at a lecture presenting the record of the former State Department adviser...
Father Hugh Halton, frequent critic of the administration and chaplain to Roman Catholic students here, drew student jeers when he accused the trustees of "lack of courage and integrity in not forcing the cancellation of the Alger Hiss speech...
...Dominican priest's remark came in his introduction of Willard Edwards, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who spoke on "The Meaning of Alger Hiss." Edwards' talk, sponsored by the Aquinas Foundation was on the eve of the Hiss speech to the Whig-Cliosophic Society on "The Meaning of Geneva...
Democratic state chairman William H. Burke wound up the campaign for McCormack with an attack on Stevenson's supporters. "You can bet," he stated, "that the great mass of Stevenson's promoters will not be here Thursday but down at Princeton University listening to Alger Hiss...
...addition to individual alumni who have objected, the Princeton Alumni of Northern New Jersey as a body wired the officers of the Whig-Cliosophic Society asking them to reconsider their decision to invite Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to speak at a meeting on "The Meaning of Geneva." The alumni claim that this action has seriously discredited Princeton and will hurt the annual giving campaign among Princeton alumni...