Word: algerisms
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...nation, shouting that he was "rooting out the skunks," just how many Communists has Joe rooted out? The answer: none. At best, he might claim an assist on three minor and borderline cases which Government investigators had already spotted. Joe tries to include himself in by saying: "We got Alger Hiss...
...spend most of their time in a solid liberal arts program, and White made his own contribution to this, too. Today every freshman is required to take the new course in the main moral and intellectual currents of U.S. thought, reading such odd combinations as a novel of Horatio Alger and Henry George's Progress and Poverty in the same week. Says White: "We're trying to turn out the kind of citizen who can read between lines and listen between words...
...former State Department expert on Latin America, asserts Woltman, had been linked by testimony with the Alger Hiss inquiry. Friends of Duggan have strongly defended him against all attacks on his reputation...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...date of McCarthy's emergence is important to an understanding of "McCarthyism." Alger Hiss had been convicted two weeks before, and four days after the trial's end, Dean Acheson made his statement: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss...