Word: algerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dear Mr. Alger...
Magruder was a witness for Alger Hiss at his New York prejury trial in 1949. Hiss was convicted of passing secret State Department documents to Whittaker Chambers...
...best Horatio-Alger style, Wood broke on the national scene in the first game of the 1929 season. An untried sophomore, he spent the early stages of the game sitting on the bench. But with Army ahead by seven points, he got his chance, and Harvard's most unbelievable sports saga commenced. Wood quickly moved the team downfield, getting a clutch touchdown on a 40-yard pass. He then tied the game with a pressure-filled dropkick for the extra point...
...luster in the image of "Old Bruin," but he makes the mistake of comparing him to his older brother Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie. "Oliver fascinated people when he talked," while Matthew "could only convince them." Matthew had the admirable but unexciting virtues of a seagoing Alger hero. Utterly efficient, he ran a taut but not too happy ship, stressing maximum standards of hygiene and minimum shore liberty. When corporal punishment was abolished, he predicted that the Navy would "go to the devil...
...beginning to think that the least well-qualified person to solve urban problems is the Horatio Alger offshoot from Ireland, Poland or Italy whose attitude toward the Negro is: We made it; let them. I hold that Paddy and Sambo are not the same people. Paddy's ancestors came here because they ran out of potatoes in Ireland, while Sambo was dragged here in chains, and kept in ignorance by Southern plantation owners...