Word: whig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final analysis, practically everyone except New York headline writers and opportunist Father Halton regretted that the initial invitation was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society, which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates. Only Kefauver, and two others, Senator Sparkman and journalist William S. White, agreed, as did Hiss, to come...
...Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at its lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...
...Bruce probably wouldn't do it all over again if he had the choice," a public speaking teacher said in reference to the selection of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had no idea of the implications," he recalled...
...when the last detention was lifted in 1955, only 39 students chose to return to Red China. ¶ After a three-hour session behind closed doors, the trustees of Princeton University decided the problem that had raised a rumpus extending all the way to Congress: Should the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the oldest student debating society in the U.S., be allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they explained, obviously had no "subversive intent.' Therefore the trustees...
...Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs...