Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defendants violate the Smith...
...pronouncement split Olivet right in two. The anti-Ashby faction found powerful leaders on the faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till...
...first skirmish of the war took place after Olivet's football team won its last home game with Anderson College (13-6) in November. President Ashby, a football fan, declared a holiday to celebrate. The Smith group of teachers and their student followers disdainfully held classes anyway. Later, in a speech to Detroit alumni, President Ashby remarked that most of the student troublemakers in the uproar over the sacking of Akeley came from one race and one locality. The S.A.C.s decided that he was referring to Olivet's Jewish students from New York, demanded at a mass meeting...
Back to Normalcy. After that, the Smith faction decided to force Ashby's hand on the question of faculty tenure. At a meeting of the faculty cabinet-an administrative holdover from pre-Ashby days-it pushed through a vote recommending that all the Smith boys be given life contracts. The board of trustees gave a fast and brusque answer. They told Smith and Mabee that they were fired. The trustees also informed three other teachers-a member of the political science department, the director of the fine arts school, and a member of the music department-that their contracts...
...American Spectator colleagues Richard R. Smith (publisher), Ernest Boyd, George Jean Nathan...