Word: alger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stephen M Schwebel '50 was elected last night to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the United Nations. Among other members of the Executive Committee are Summer Welles and Alger Hiss...
...call communism a bugaboo when ten countries with a population of over 300 million people have been overrun by the Commies," Dorgan cried. "I can't understand why we haven't got more Americans," he went on, pounding the table. "Look at men like Alger Hiss, a bright boy from Harvard Law School who turned more than 60 State Department documents over to the Russians...
...Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss spy investigation was heightened by all but one of these...
...wiped out by a financial panic. "I can remember distinctly how I felt when we didn't have any more money [after the crash of 1907]. I could feel myself becoming what [Anthropologist W. L.] Warner calls 'mobilized downward.' Of course, I had read Horatio Alger and I was ready to face this change in circumstance in a sportsmanlike manner." In Point of No Return it is Anthropologist Malcolm Bryant who explains such niceties of the scientific vocabulary to Charley Gray...
...quite true, said Acheson, that Alger Hiss "became, and he remains, my friend. I do not detract from that when I state that Alger Hiss was not my assistant." It was Donald Hiss, not Alger, who had been his assistant. Said Acheson: "This whole matter of confusion of two men has arisen out of the testimony of my former colleague, Mr. Adolf Berle [TIME, Jan. 17] ... Mr. Berle's memory has gone badly astray...