MSDE was initially designed by ( then ) Microsoft Program Manager Jeff Alger and later implemented by Peter Byrne ( core ), Ronald R. Martinsen ( core / setup ), and Mike Maringas ( setup ).

Blues singer Alger " Texas " Alexander wrote a song called the " Sabine River Blues ".

He wrote a few lackluster books in the following years that rehashed the formulaic Alger of old but this time the tales were played before a Western backcloth rather than an urban one.

In 1870 the elder Henry James wrote that Alger " talks freely about his own late insanity — which he in fact appears to enjoy as a subject of conversation ".

Alger wrote, for example, that it was difficult to distinguish whether Tattered Tom was a boy or a girl and in other instances he introduces foppish, effeminate, lisping " stereotypical homosexuals " who are treated with scorn and pity by others.

He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome ( for one collaboration with Algis Budrys ).

Documented in a paper titled " The Problem Of American Communism In 1945 " Cronin wrote, " In the State Department, the most influential Communist has been Alger Hiss.

Upon Wood's death, George Van of The Detroit News wrote: “ To the public, he was Tom Swift, Jules Verne, Frank Merriwell with a little bit of Horatio Alger thrown in .”

In January 1838, some months after the Algers had left Kirtland, Oliver Cowdery — one of the Three Witnesses to the authenticity of the Book of Mormon — wrote his brother concerning his indignation at Smith's relationship with Alger.

" That ," wrote Bushman, " was all Joseph wanted: an admission that he had not termed the Alger affair adulterous.

* 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

* 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

** Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing positions of Western powers and the USSR closer to each other at the Yalta Conference.

Alger, who flew the inaugural air mail flight from England to Australia for Imperial Airways ' Empires Air Routes, in February 1937.

Horatio Alger, Jr. ( January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899 ) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.

In the 1870s, Alger took a trip to California to gather material for future books, but the trip had little influence on his writing.

In 1875 Alger produced the serial Shifting for Himself and Sam's Chance, a sequel to The Young Outlaw.

Alger was commissioned to give Abraham Lincoln a biographical treatment but again it was Alger the boys ' novelist opting for thrills rather than facts.

Alger occasionally cited the young Abe Lincoln as a representative of this theme for his readers.

Scharnhorst writes " Financially insecure throughout his life, the younger Alger may have been active in reform organizations such as those for temperance and children's aid as a means of resolving his status-anxiety and establish his genteel credentials for leadership.

Although he continued to write for boys, Alger explored subjects like violence and " openness in the relations between the sexes and generations "; Hoyt attributes this shift to the decline of Puritan ethics in America.

Scholar John Geck notes that Alger relied on " formulas for experience rather than shrewd analysis of human behavior ", and that these formulas were " culturally centered " and " strongly didactic ".

Alan Trachtenberg of Yale University points out in his introduction to the Signet Classic edition of Ragged Dick ( 1990 ) that Alger had tremendous sympathy for boys and discovered a calling for himself in the composition of boys ' books.

He observes that it is impossible to know whether Alger lived the life of a secret homosexual, " ut there are hints that the male companionship he describes as a refuge from the streets — the cozy domestic arrangements between Dick and Fosdick, for example — may also be an erotic relationship ".

Trachtenberg concludes " n Ragged Dick we see Alger plotting domestic romance, complete with a surrogate marriage of two homeless boys, as the setting for his formulaic metamorphosis of an outcast street boy into a self-respecting citizen ".

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

In the late 1940s Acheson came under heavy attack over Truman's policy toward China, and for Acheson's defense of State Department employees ( such as Alger Hiss ) accused during the anti-Communist Red Scare investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others.

" This criticism grew very loud after Acheson refused to ' turn his back on Alger Hiss ' when the latter was accused of being a Communist spy, and convicted ( of perjury for denying he was a spy ).

The county was named for lumber baron Russell Alexander Alger who was a Michigan Governor, U. S. Senator and U. S. Secretary of War during the William McKinley Presidential administration.

Following the early trailblazing work of Grove Karl Gilbert around the turn of the 20th century, a group of natural scientists, geologists and hydraulic engineers including Ralph Alger Bagnold, John Hack, Luna Leopold, Thomas Maddock and Arthur Strahler began to research the form of landscape elements such as rivers and hillslopes by taking systematic, direct, quantitative measurements of aspects of them and investigating the scaling of these measurements.

The Munising area has many waterfalls including Alger Falls, Horseshoe Falls, Memorial Falls, Munising Falls, Miners Falls, Scott Falls, Tannery Falls and Wagner Falls.

Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors — including Truman Handy Newberry and Russell A. Alger Jr. On October 2, 1902, this group refinanced and renamed the New York and Ohio Automobile Company as " Packard Motor Car Company ", with James as president.

This appointment fell through, but Sheridan was subsequently aided by friends ( including future Secretary of War Russell A. Alger ), who petitioned Michigan Governor Austin Blair on his behalf.

The series interviewed major members of the Allied and Axis campaigns, including eyewitness accounts by civilians, enlisted men, officers and politicians, amongst them Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz, Walter Warlimont, James Stewart, Bill Mauldin, W. Averell Harriman, Curtis LeMay, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Alger Hiss, Toshikazu Kase, Mitsuo Fuchida, Minoru Genda, J.

Contemporary politicians also attended the meeting, including Judge John M. Thurston, Senator Russell A. Alger, Congressman J. Sloat Fassett, Congressman W. E. Mason, John M. Langston, and Abraham Lincoln's successor in the Illinois State Legislature, A. J. Lester.

Cox published a number of books including Mr. Peepers, a novel created by adapting several scripts from the television series ; My Life as a Small Boy, an idealized depiction of his childhood ; a parody and update of Horatio Alger in Ralph Makes Good, which was probably originally a screen treatment for an unmade film intended to star Cox ; and a children's book, The Tenth Life of Osiris Oakes.

" By that year, Johnson had received other awards, including the Horatio Alger Award and The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones Entrepreneurial Excellence Award.

Carl Karcher received numerous awards for his philanthropy, including, in 1979, the Horatio Alger Award " for his distinction in accomplishments through individual initiative, hard work and adherence to traditional ideals.

In 1948, Gorsky authored the Gorsky memo, an internal Soviet secret police document in which he listed 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to be identified to American authorities by Bentley after her defection, including Alger Hiss, Harry White and Lauchlin Currie.

" They do not qualify the list, which includes everyone from Alger Hiss to Harry Magdoff, the former New Deal economist and Marxist editor of Monthly Review, and Walter Bernstein, the lefty screenwriter who reported on Tito for Yank magazine.

He was also known under the pen names " Frank Mason ," " Alger Rome ," " John A. Sentry ," " William Scarff ," and " Paul Janvier.

The Union Trust Company was founded in Detroit in 1890 by Senator James McMillan, and Dexter M. Ferry, along with investments from Russell A. Alger, Col. Frank J. Hecker, and Christian H. Buhl.

* Frank E. Resnik biography on the website of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans