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...Division, joined the Ike-for-President forces in 1951. He and his wife are personal friends of Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway. Strong's appointment was held up for 3½ months because of security investigations into reports that he had been socially acquainted with Alger Hiss...
...story noted that Alger Hiss had been elected to the Law Review, and registration figures showed that the class had dwindled to 601 men. The Corporation decided that non-scientific courses could adopt the reading period plan. The plan, left to the discretion of the instructor, called for a cessation of classes two weeks before the final ones, so that students could study special assignments in the libraries...
...Eisenhower Administration last week warned businessmen of their new responsibilities. "Business is on trial in Washington," Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told a convention of magazine publishers at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. "Business is also on trial in Wall Street and Main Street . . . In the days of Horatio Alger and Calvin Coolidge, business was the pin-up hero. Then came the financial crash and the Depression. That tragedy gave every rabble-rouser a chance to blame business . . . It has taken business more than two decades to climb back to where it is respected and trusted again...
...York housewife, after praising the patriotism of inquiring Congressmen, suggested, "I think the professors and students of colleges should get their ideological education in the Korean trenches, where communists are killing American boys. I do not believe inexperienced youth can judge any ideology objectively, from professors who taught Alger Hiss, Lee, Pressman and other disloyal Harvard graduates...
...Lord Jowitt, with time on his hands, turned to the study of the Hiss case. With the affinity of many non-Communist leftists for the Hiss defense, and with the British tendency to consider the U.S. "hysterical" about Communists, it surprised no one that Jowitt found for Alger Hiss. It may be a shock to some readers, however, that a onetime Lord Chancellor does "not pretend to know" about Communist morality and that he cannot get facts as an ordinary American jury got them...