Word: algerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the many domestic stories he covered, old-TIMErs best remember his interview with a wayfarer on Chicago's Skid Row (July 22, 1946), his report on the Centralia mine disaster (April 7, 1947), and the two Alger Hiss trials...
...Bill Moyers [Oct. 29] is proof for the pessimistic youth of today that the Horatio Alger concept of success can be lived...
...Alger Hiss put on trial in New York as a result of an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The "subversive" issue becomes prominent in the national consciousness...
...same year that Red-Ucators appeared, Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the Law Review and a protege of Felix Frankfurter. When he went to Washington as a federal administrator, Hiss, like countless servants of the New Deal, symbolized Harvard to the nation. And, when he was convicted of perjury, the real charge in the public mind was espionage, and the University was viewed...
...could approach Coolidge's longevity, and although he and Coolidge comprised the Corporation's Special Committee to study the Fury Case, he seems to have followed his colleague's lead. A descendant of the plaintiff in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marbury was a Baltimore lawyer and personal friend of Alger Hiss. In fact, one reason for his unsureness in the Furry case was a disappointment with the outcome of Hiss's trial and a belief that the convicted perjurer had lied even to his closest friends. Such a view made him suspicious towards other leftists, including Furry...