Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist: for President, Norman Thomas, 63 (for the sixth time) ; for Vice President, Tucker P. Smith, professor of economics at Michigan's Olivet College. Advocating public ownership of natural resources, basic industries and credit, the Socialists denounced Henry Wallace as "an apologist for the slave state of Russia and the preacher of peace by blind appeasement." The party polled 884,000 votes in 1932, dropped...
...three days they nominated their presidential candidate. Although he had said he would not run again, it turned out to be Princeton-bred ('05), aging Norman Thomas, who had already carried the Socialist banner in five straight presidential elections. They picked Tucker P. Smith, an economics professor from Olivet, Mich., to run for Vice President. Then they went back home to hope and argue and wait for the recalcitrant world to come to its senses...
After graduating from Amherst, receiving a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, and teaching at Amherst and Olivet, Clark came to Harvard in 1904 to work with Agassiz as assistant in Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum. In 1911, he became curator of Echindorms and, in 1928, was named curator of Marine Invertebrates, a post which he held until July...
...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...
Last week Mount Olivet, now the second biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...