Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time went on, Halton found error all about him. In 1956, when a group of students asked Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss to make a speech, Halton huffed that this was "Princeton's darkest hour," brought in a reporter from the Chicago Tribune to tell the students about Hiss and his Communist connections. The American Association of University Professors, charged Halton, "has abuses more serious than have been found in the inquiries of the Teamsters Union." He blasted a book called Morals and Medicine used as a text in some religion courses, saying that it misrepresented Roman Catholic teaching. Later...
...Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...
...been answered freshman year (where is home, family income, reasons for coming) take the place of questions which could only be answered, if at all, by Seniors. Some of the right questions are asked, of course, but in a way which allows all significance to escape with a quiet hiss. Seniors are asked whether they believe that labor unions have become too strong for the good of the country; the Yearbook expects this question to give an idea of the spectrum of Harvard political views. The Yearbook seems not to be interested in what the Harvardman thinks, but rather...
...this type of evidence that makes the Hiss case so puzzling. If this typewriter thesis is true, then there is no doubt but that Chambers has lied, and that Hiss was "framed." But the whole story of a fake typewriter seems so fantastic that it is virtually impossible to accept. One asks over and over, how could Chambers in 1948 have found the time and seclusion necessary to make a bogus typewriter, and then plant the machine so that Hiss' lawyers would "discover" it later? Why would he not destroy the machine instead of leaving himself open to possible suspicion...
...plods through the cold, carefully-worded book, Hiss' persistence does have its effect. Hiss certainly "appears" right in much of his attack on Chambers' testimony, and he is often convincing in offsetting incriminating evidence. But it is this legal approach to the case that detracts the most from the book. The work is a microscopic observation of the whole Chambers-Hiss case from Hiss' point-of-view, a point-of-view already well-known. Hiss tells the reader little about his intellectual background, especially his attitude toward radicalism, something that is crucial to the whole Case. One wonders...