Word: stooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rats & Stool Pigeons." Bridges lost neither his poise nor his apparent fascination for his own voice during a long and repetitive cross-examination at the hands of soft-spoken Special Prosecutor F. Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue...
Point by point, Bridges denied the Government's charges that he had attended secret meetings of the Communist Party's top brass. He assailed the Government witnesses with venom, as "liars, rats and stool pigeons," continually reminded the jury that the Government had tried unsuccessfully to prove him a Communist twice before. In talking of the Government's most convincing witness-Newsman George Wilson, who charged that he had seen Bridges at a Communist meeting in San Francisco-the longshore leader cried: "[They were] pointing a gun at him. He looked like a guy who was about...
...petitions that students will be requested to sign ask for elimination of the certificate's so-called "stool pigeon clause." That section of the certificate requires NROTC students to report other persons known to the signer as having associated with groups listed as subversive by the attorney general...
Americans for Democratic Action, in a letter to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, has accused the Navy of imitating "Communist totalitarian policies and devices" in requiring NROTC students to sign a 'stool pigeon" loyalty certificate, it was learned last night. The letter was partially initiated by a Liberal Union appeal to the ADA for national action on the "informer clause" in the oath administered to the Harvard Naval Science students...
Faculty opinion was not adverse to the certificate as such, he said, but "only to the so-called stool pigeon clause...