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Chambers had one more name, and it was a shocker: Alger Hiss. Harvard-trained Alger Hiss (43-year-old brother of 41-year-old Donald) went to Washington as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became one of the brightest of the New Deal's young men. He was an assistant counsel with the famed Nye Committee, which investigated the munitions industry and was largely responsible for the Neutrality Acts. For ten years, until 1946, he had been one of the State Department's most trusted...
...people were specifically not wanted as sources of information. These people were an elite group, an outstanding group, which, it was believed, would rise to positions-as indeed some of them did-in the Government, and their position . . . would be of very much more service to the Communist Party." Alger Hiss and Lee Pressman, said Chambers, were among the elite...
Many thanks for the colorful O'Dwyer saga. Again the ever-recurring Horatio Alger story dominates the American scene...
...good part of Lyons' story is convincing. The Quaker boy putting himself through college by delivering laundry, working in a Sierra mine camp, becoming a brilliant, wealthy engineer-all this is good, moving Horatio Alger stuff. And Lyons is doubtless on the side of historical justice when he insists that President Hoover was 1) not responsible for the depression, and 2) anticipated many of the economic remedies for which his successor was later hailed...
Bernard Baruch's cup kept right on overflowing. The American Schools and Colleges Association poured in one of its Horatio Alger Awards, for a fine ascent from a lowly beginning...