Word: olson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...COCK OF HEAVEN-Elder Olson -Macmillan...
That all flesh is as grass-and mostly crab grass at that-is a juicy writer's thesis that seems incapable of being squeezed dry. One of the latest literati to draw blood from this cosmic lemon is Elder Olson, a young, Byronic-looking assistant professor of English at Illinois Institute of Technology. His The Cock of Heaven is a long poem about the irremediable genesis, incorrigible exodus and appalling exeunt of the Goddamned, salvation-proof children of Adam. For purely literary excitement, it should rank as the poetic book-of-the-year...
Divinity School Scholarships were given to Maurice W. Armstrong; Oliver S. Beltz; Richard Cummings, John R. Dallinger; John Daugman; Howard F. Dunn; Ward J. Fellows; John H. Gerstner; William H. Gysan; Gleen P. Holman; Robert LaV. Jacobs; Carl K. Lien; John A. Martin; Edwin A. Olson; Howard E. Runner; Clarence A. Wagner; and Clement W. Welsh...
Minnesota. In the Republican fold after twelve years as a Farmer-Labor member of the U. S. Senate, poker-playing old Henrik Shipstead had no trouble walking off with the Republican Senatorial nomination. For GOPoliticos, it was like the good old days before Floyd Olson. They land-slid tough, able young Governor Harold Stassen in on his way to a second term...
...There was one more river to cross. Seventeen men had been directly or indirectly promised the Vice-Presidency, or boosted for it, by some member of Hopkins & Co. These included: Cordell Hull, William B. Bankhead, James Byrnes. William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry A. Wallace, Culbert Olson, Lloyd C. Stark, Sam Rayburn, Jesse H. Jones. Scott Lucas. Paul V. McNutt, Charles Sawyer...