Word: algerism
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...inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged in contributors from Skeptic H. L. Mencken to Booster Bruce Barton. When Editor Sumner Blossom took over in 1929, he announced, "Horatio Alger doesn't work here any more," and American turned itself into a family magazine. It went on thriving for years...
...health, Harry replied: "I am hopeful that President Eisenhower's health will be good and will make him able to enter the presidential race." While in Brussels, Truman and wife Bess also got themselves up in go-to-meetin' attire, joined U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Frederick M. Alger Jr. in a palace visit with Belgium's young, informally dressed King Baudouin...
...hoos, but the intellectual's duty was to do more than that-to criticize the en lightened people, to criticize his own side." The dogma of liberalism was that the liberal could do no wrong, and for some the day of disillusionment came only with the fall of Alger Hiss, when it became "impossible any longer to believe that . . . the liberal is per se the hero...
...your editorial as "probably the biggest loser in the whole row," because he delivered "near-fanatic harangues" and received "his first public rebuke--from undergraduates at large." Not only is "at large" left unelaborated, but "near-fanaticism" is not evident in Father Halton's speech or, surprisingly, that of Alger Hiss, both appearing in the May 4th issue of U.S. News and World Report...
...difficult to conceive of reasons, or even of excuses (other than sensational publicity), to justify the invitation of Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to address an institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth. To find truth is hard enough without adding to its elusiveness. Alger Hiss was convicted of a moral as well as a legal crime. Precedent assures us that it is not likely that Hiss would have anything to say to searchers for the truth in a repository of the truth. Law and conscience tell us that he is outside of the tradition. If we were to deny this...