Sentence examples for alger from inspiring English sources

After Murrow debates with McCarthy, his boss Bill Paley Frank Langellaaccusesses him of not correcting the senator on one point of fact: that the lawyer and State Department official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury, not treason.

But don't harp on about the odds being still stacked against you, or reveal that you have a sick mother or a demanding child, or you kill the Horatio Alger buzz.This overwhelming emphasis on style rather than substance may seem an odd way to select members of the 1%.

A combination of criminal charges from Mr Spitzer and the states, a new set of rules from the SEC and a separate slew of regulation from Capitol Hill looks likely to result in a thorough overhaul of American fund management.The man at the centre of the latest fund scandal is James Connelly, a former senior executive at Fred Alger Management, a New Jersey-based fund group.

The first is that leftists, from the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss to John Walker Lindh (the Marin County-bred "American Taliban"), have been caught doing treasonous things.

He seems to be describing his hopes for Alger as much as for its investments.

He would order the publication of unfavourable articles, just as he once forbade his television stations to broadcast a documentary on Nixon, because it included an interview with Alger Hiss, a "treasonable spy".

A high degree of social mobility has always defined American culture, from the work of Alexis de Tocqueville and Horatio Alger to the remarkable story of Barack Obama himself.But the reality for most Americans is becoming more complicated.

Berkshire Hathaway's managerial ranks boast several winners of the Horatio Alger award given to business leaders who epitomise the dream of moving from poverty to prosperity in a single generation.