William G. Salatich, at 87; former executive at Gillette Nov 15, 2009
Mr. Salatich never went to business school and joked upon receiving the 1975 Horatio Alger Award in New York City: I don t have any letters after my name, but I have had something for the past 40 years, and that is a J-O-B.. He graduated from Lane Technical High School in Chicago at age 16 and worked as a factory man, bowling alley manager, and cabdriver. (Boston Globe)
Al Gore: Climate Pirate Nov 6, 2009
Al Gore is no Horatio Alger: more a P.T. Barnum ... It is said that Horatio Alger s heroes gain wealth and honors and achieve the American Dream by leading exemplary lives, struggling valiantly against poverty and adversity. (Human Events Online)
Rod Blagojevich Still Wants Your Vote Oct 27, 2009
The first Democratic governor in Illinois in a generation, he had charisma, connections, deep coffers and a Horatio Alger type bio. "You have to remember, a lot of people thought that Rod Blagojevich had a very good shot at becoming President of the United States," says Mike Jacobs, a state senator from Rock Island, Ill. (Time.com)
Dorchester writer-director brings new angle to ‘Business Is War’ Oct 25, 2009
In his debut feature, which has two screenings on Friday at Hibernian Hall, writer-director and Dorchester native Kemal Gordon tells a very modern Horatio Alger story. Gordon, 29, an Emerson graduate, lives with his wife, Jamilyn, who is also his assistant, in the basement of his parents Uphams Corner home. (Boston Globe)
Mad Men, Season 3 Sep 23, 2009
Yet it seems to free him to give a surprisingly optimistic, Horatio Alger speech to his daughter. Is this Don's realization (which, it is implied, the America of the 60s and 70s will have to learn the hard way) that life can be better not getting what you want. (Slate)
Private morals and public lives of three flawed giants Aug 27, 2009
In book after book, family patriarch Joseph Patrick Kennedy snr comes off as equal parts Horatio Alger and Niccolo Machiavelli. The son of a first-generation Irish Catholic saloonkeeper-turned-Boston-ward-boss, Joe snr attended Harvard and married the daughter of famed Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Executive Suite Aug 18, 2009
In 2007, he received the Horatio Alger Award, which recognizes individuals who overcome adversity to achieve. He and wife Jacqueline Bradley have one of U.S.'s leading private collections of African-American art. (USA Today -- Money)
What Happened to the Hope? Jul 31, 2009
In 2006, a poll by the Horatio Alger Association, a nonprofit education group, found that only 53 percent of students ages 13 to 19 were optimistic about the future of the country -- a 22 percent drop from 2003. It is depressing to see children, whose cell phones utilize technology that eclipses the collective advances of entire cultures, down on their futures. (Townhall.com)
Judd, Seriously Jul 30, 2009
But if Horatio Alger had written tales about boys who labored tirelessly to fulfill their dream of making movies full of penis jokes, he would have written about Apatow. Related. (Time.com)
Marlborough's Old West Meeting House for sale Jul 18, 2009
In the 1840s, Horatio Alger Sr. was a minister there, Kane said. Alger and his soon-to-be famous author son lived in Marlborough at the time. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
Hung Will Make You Think Long and Hard About the State of the Economy Jun 27, 2009
The structure brings to mind the third sentence of Tom Wolfe's : "Every child goes to school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts warehouse." Failing to make ends meet there, he tries to take a page from Dale Carnegieor maybe Horatio Alger, author of rags-to-riches tales for boys, most famously. At a self-actualization course promising to make its students millionaires, our hero reluctantly reconnects with Tanya Skagle, whom he was once imprudent enough to... (Slate)
The white man is being oppressed! May 29, 2009
The GOP establishment has mostly been trying to stay away from a fight many Republicans realize they can't win; with 17 years as a federal judge and a biography that Horatio Alger might have thought too trite to use in his rags-to-riches novels, Sonia Sotomayor is virtually a lock to be confirmed. Though , GOP senators are not rushing to the ramparts. (Salon)
The GOP's Initial Tactic on Sotomayor: Play for Time May 27, 2009
But at a time when the party has already alienated Hispanic voters, the GOP knows it has to tread very carefully in dealing with the first Hispanic candidate for the nation's highest court, especially a woman of Puerto Rican descent with an inspiring Horatio Alger story of her own. (). (Time.com)
Cases, talks offer hints to her views May 27, 2009
As a result, the Sotomayor storyline almost immediately split in two directions - a heartwarming narrative of Horatio Alger proportions to her defenders, and a cautionary tale of liberal judicial activism to her critics. While the Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to confirm her, Sotomayor's life and record nonetheless are certain to be hotly debated in the weeks to come. (Boston Globe)
Obama's bedside book May 7, 2009
He is equal parts Horatio Alger, P.T. Barnum, Nathan Detroit, and Sammy Glick: a brilliantly self-educated entrepreneur who juggles a wife and girlfriend, gives long disquisitions on exotic birds inhabiting the five boroughs, masters (and profits from) the intricacies of selling kosher seafood, and runs numbers on the side in apparent defiance of established criminal organizations. Most of these characters (Chuck is an ambiguous exception) dont want to cut corners. (MSNBC -- Politics)
'Finding Oz,' by Evan I. Schwartz May 4, 2009
To answer these questions, Evan I. Schwartz, author of "Finding Oz," reaches back into the social life of late-19th century America to write a failure-to-fame tale as rich as anything out of Horatio Alger. Schwartz is a former editor of BusinessWeek and the author of two previous books about American inventors, and so it is no surprise that "Finding Oz" spends more time on the economy than the imagination. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Helicopter sabotage targets billionaire May 2, 2009
Ambani's father, Dhirubhai Ambani, was one of India's first great capitalists, a South Asian Horatio Alger hero who inspired generations of entrepreneurs. He launched the Reliance empire trading spices and textiles before going public in 1977 in one of India's first major public offerings. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
LETTER: Using Bible to denounce homosexuality is wrong Apr 29, 2009
The Question wrote on Apr 28, 2009 4:59 PM:" If you were to retroactively withdraw the accomplishments of gay people from history, you'd find yourself somewhere back in the Dark Ages, at least.Subtract the achievements of these: Alexander the Great, Socrates, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, Edward II, Saladin, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Byron, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, E.M. Forster, Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Pope Julius... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Biden Calls Affordable College A Priority Apr 28, 2009
The Horatio Alger model had enough reality to attract the best and brightest from around the globe. However, the consolidation of U.S. wealth in a shrinking, tightly controlled business group narrowly focused on financial gain, is creating a privileged class that seeks control in all venues of the society. (CBS News -- 60 minutes)
Elizabeth Merrill » Apr 2, 2009
That Curry survived here, got his bachelor's degree in sociology while his mom struggled to raise three boys on her own, is a Horatio Alger story in and of itself. That he's attracted 41 NFL scouts to the campus could be considered an even bigger feat. (ESPN -- Football News)
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Lodi High senior awarded Horatio Alger National Scholarship ... Sarah Edwards recently won a 20,000 scholarship from the Horatio Alger Scholarship program ... Lodi High senior awarded Horatio Alger National Scholarship. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Lodi High senior awarded Horatio Alger National Scholarship Mar 27, 2009
Sarah Edwards recently won a 20,000 scholarship from the Horatio Alger Scholarship program ... Now in her senior year at Lodi High School, Edwards has been awarded the National Scholar Award in the amount of 20,000 from the Horatio Alger Association. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
David Brooks: The commercial republic Mar 18, 2009
From Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, through Horatio Alger and Norman Vincent Peale, up until Donald Trump and Jim Cramer, popular figures have always emerged to champion the American gospel of success, encouraging middle-class people to strive, risk and make money. This gospel gets dented during each of the nation's financial crises, but it always returns with a vengeance. (International Herald Tribune)
Leading the pack: 'Slumdog Millionaire' in the lead for Oscars' best picture Feb 22, 2009
Through luck, pluck and perseverance, Jamal rises above his station like a South Asian Horatio Alger; some writers have even likened him to Barack Obama. Though the film isn't set in the United States (and the film's director, Danny Boyle, is British), "Slumdog" strikes an American chord. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
No obstacles Feb 13, 2009
Kuehn recently won the 2009 Horatio Alger National Scholarship ... Its in these details, the seemingly small accomplishments, that Cole got his due as he recently was named a 2009 Horatio Alger National Scholar ... Horatio Alger National Scholarship. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
