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Feller was reportedly a close friend of Alger Hiss, who graduated from the Law School in 1929. Hiss is now in prison for perjury...
Under the last heading comes the question of softness to Communism, of which the confused deadlock of the Korean war was the most persuasive symptom and the Alger Hiss case was the most clinically revealing symptom...
...unified his bitterly divided party, defined his "crusade,'' and set out to pass the next test, in which the goal was 266 electoral votes. His campaign survived the Nixon crisis-stirred up partly out of hatred for the man who broke the Alger Hiss case-and turned an apparent setback into an advantage. It survived the egghead rebellion, the desertion of Ike by scores of intellectuals, journalists, Hollywoodians and other opinion makers...
Michigan. Republican Fred Alger and Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams battled each other in another hairbreadth affair. By the morning after, Alger held a 35,000 lead, and Soapy's only hope seemed to be in the lagging returns from some strong Democratic districts...
McCarthy displayed his usual tendency to imply conclusions more sweeping than his facts warranted and he once, in referring to Stevenson, said, "Alger-pardon me-I mean Adlai," a McCarthy trick that he has used several times before...