Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton University, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, undergraduate debating group, announced that ex-State Department Employee Alger Hiss will speak to the society late this month on "The Meaning of Geneva." It will be Hiss's first public address since he got out of a federal pen in 1954, after serving three years and eight months of a five-year sentence for perjury about his role as a Red agent in the State Department...
...case of Richard Nixon, the Post has attacked when the Democrats were in power and again after the Republicans took over. The Post first criticized Nixon when he was helping to unmask Traitor Alger Hiss. Publisher Graham contends that "all men of good will," including the men of the Post, were embarrassed by the Hiss case. The paper sprang to Hiss's defense, switched later when the evidence piled up against him. In the Post's more recent anti-Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham...
Princeton alumni are pressuring the debating society at Princeton to cancel the speaking engagement of Alger Hiss,, scheduled for April...
...House Democratic Patronage Committee recommending Maragon. Growled Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres: "If the Democratic leadership wants to take care of its ex-convicts this way, there's very little that can be done about it. I suppose we can look for Alger Hiss to be added to the staff of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
Asked to speak on "The Meaning of Geneva" at Swarthmore College, Alger Hiss, preparing for his first public address since his release from federal prison (TIME, Dec. 6, 1954), had the welcome mat pulled out from under him. His invitation, issued by the Swarthmore chapter of the Students for Democratic Action, was vetoed by S.D.A.'s parent Americans for Democratic Action. Explained an A.D.A. official: ". . . We wouldn't invite convicted gangsters and dope peddlers to address us. We don't see why we should invite a convicted traitor...