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Three University officials and one of it's oldest living graduates were among the 22 prominent lawyers who signed a statement yesterday defending Governor Adlai E. Stevenson's deposition for Alger Hiss...
...important few have not ... They are the proud prisoners of their own mistakes." The men who did not learn about Communism, Eisenhower implied, were the followers of Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson, both of whom he proceeded to quote. "They are those who cheered the blithe dismissal of the Alger Hiss case as 'a red herring.' They are those who applauded two weeks ago when an Administration Democrat grandly declared that Communists in our national life were 'not very important' and he advised that we should not waste time chasing 'phantoms...
...Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...
Heavy Mortgage. Fred Alger's error is a common one in Michigan because Soapy is an uncommon politician. From his office on the second floor of the state capitol in Lansing, Governor Williams runs Michigan with a fine air of democracy and honest folksiness. His office door is never closed, and newsmen are privileged to wander in & out of his "goldfish bowl" (as he calls it); they listen in on state conferences. Soapy detests pomp and formality, sends his three youngsters to Lansing public schools. He lives well within his $22,500-a-year salary: there is only...
...lieutenant commander with ten Pacific battle stars and a Legion of Merit, Murphy got him a job as deputy director of OPA in Michigan. By this time Soapy was on the make for governor, and-when the OPA job expired-he gladly seized at Fred Alger's offer of the spot on the liquor commission. At the same time Soapy Williams, the boy wonder of three schools, rounded the corner and came face to face with practical politics. He aligned himself with two highly practical Democratic groups which needed nothing so much as a popular candidate. They were...