Word: algerism
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...Horatio Alger-type sports heroes are no longer as popular as they heroes are no longer as popular as they were a few decades back, because Harvard could cash in on its current top halfback, Alky Tsitsos...
Died. Claude B. Cross, 80, cherubic Boston trial lawyer whose skills in jugular cross-examination failed to save alleged Communist Agent Alger Hiss in 1950 in his second trial for perjury, one of the major courtroom dramas of the cold war era. (The principal witness against Hiss was ex-Communist and former TIME Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers.) Cross remained convinced of his client's innocence, and was preparing a motion to re-admit Hiss, who is now lecturing and writing, to the Massachusetts bar when he succumbed to cancer in Brookline, Mass...
...before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired the McCarthy-Army hearings six years later. After suffering a stroke in 1969, he refused to resign and in February 1972, he became the first Senator ever to be stripped of seniority and key committee assignments by his fellow legislators...
...Before his first term was out, he had become a national figure for his role in the investigation of the attractive, patrician Alger Hiss as a former Communist courier. The House Un-American Activities Committee was ready to abandon its probe, but Nixon persevered until a plainly damaging case had been made against Hiss, largely on the witness of Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant and enigmatic writer and editor who, before he joined TIME in 1939, had been a Communist for 15 years...
...commonplace in Washington for generations, and the Nixon Administration uses them too. The President knows the drill well. Martin Hayden, who as a correspondent met Nixon in 1949, recalls that the young Congressman was a generous, reliable ?and anonymous?source for a few reporters covering the investigation of Alger Hiss...