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...scholarly achievements were recognized by Olivet College, Michigan, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1927. But he was an ardent field worker and it is reported that he was "never happier than when he was collecting in the tropics...
...strategy. There was risk in coming out into the open from the safety of Albany. But Dewey was well aware of the old suspicion in the West that Tom Dewey was just a little too fluent, a little too much the slick Easterner, that actually he was as ardent an advocate of Big Government as any New Dealer. He had to wipe out those suspicions...
...Argentina Evita holds the official title of "First Samaritan," but whether her unbounded love for the masses has been repaid in kind is open to question. Eva has few close friends and many bitter enemies in the land of her conquest. Even the most ardent Peronistas are divided as to whether she is a boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into...
...president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings whenever he spoke. Embarrassed U.S. Jews denounced him as disloyal...
...Sight . . . In Wellington, Kans., after a long hot drive, Wallace Peterson realized that he had forgotten something, turned around and drove back 50 miles to pick up Mrs. Peterson. In Pittsburgh, an ardent ball fan demanded a pass-out check, explained to the gatekeeper: "It's my wife-I forgot and left her in a restaurant up the street...