Word: algerisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mistake. This time Soapy is running against Republican Fred Alger Jr., 45, Michigan's secretary of state and the grandson of a former governor, Russell A. Alger, who was McKinley's Secretary of War (1897-99). In Fred Alger the Republicans have put their best foot forward. He has proved himself a good vote getter in four previous statewide campaigns for political offices, and he can make a better, more forceful speech than Soapy...
...Alger and Soapy have known each other off & on for years: they both grew up in Detroit's crusty, oldtime high society, which still considers itself one notch better than the new rich of the automobile industry. Soapy insists, however, on making a distinction when he and Alger are referred to as a couple of millionaires. "Alger traveled in the polo-pony class," says the Democratic candidate, "while I was in the tennis-racket crowd...
Opportunity came a year and a half later, when a man called Whittaker Chambers testified before the committee that a man called Alger Hiss was a Communist...
...Quakerism sometimes amused and always heartened me. I have a vivid picture of him in the blackest hour of the Hiss case, standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way (he is the kindest of men): 'If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil...
...show the tolerance of Communist infiltration issue as a broad and continuing characteristic of the Democratic Party. Part of the Republican ammunition is the failure of Democratic leaders to make certain motions to get themselves off this hook. Secretary Acheson said that he would not turn his back on Alger Hiss. Harry Truman's last word on the Hiss case was to call it a "red herring...