Word: whig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
Comparing the G.O.P. to the Whig Party of the late 1840's, Clark said, "In 1848 the Whigs ran without a platform, with only General Zachary Taylor, a military hero. They won that election, but never won again." The Republican Party may well follow the pattern of dissolution that the Whigs experienced, he added...
...cops who overpowered the gunman had no trouble identifying him: he was a ballistics specialist on the force before being sacked last year. Dunbar was also, it seemed, a member of the Independent True Whig Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...