Nearing went to work on the staff of the CP's daily newspaper, The Daily Worker, on May 9, 1928, remaining in that position until resigning in January 1930 to publish a study on imperialism which failed to meet the ideological scrutiny of the organization.

As an employee of the Socialist Party-affiliated Rand School of Social Science, Nearing remained in the Socialist Party until the end of 1923.

Ridgewood, NJ: Nellie Seeds Nearing, 1923.

Nearing home, he jerked to attention at the distant crack of a gun.

Nearing his destination in the Carpathian mountains, Hutter stops at an inn for dinner.

Nearing's grandfather, Winfield Scott Nearing, had arrived in Tioga County with his family in 1864, at the age of 35, when he accepted a job as a civil and mining engineer.

Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.

From 1908 until 1915 while living in Arden, Delaware, Nearing himself taught economics and sociology at the Wharton School and Swarthmore College, authoring a stream of books on the economics and social problems.

Nearing packed up his things and moved to New York City, where he became a founding member of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace, a national pacifist organization established at the First American Conference for Peace and Democracy, held May 30 – 31, 1917.

On July 1, 1917, Nearing joined the Socialist Party and began a new job, working for the next six years as a lecturer in Economics and Sociology at the Socialist Party's Rand School of Social Science.

But at the end of the trial, Nearing addressed the jury and made a key point:

According to at least one historian, Nearing was formally expelled from the CPUSA in 1930 in connection with this decision.

While there Nearing rather boldly gave a speech at Yenching University on his book, The American Empire, in a room darkened so that audience members could not be later identified and denounced.

" Through the decades, Nearing wrote thousands of pages of news and commentary on these themes, retiring from this activity only in 1970, at the age of 87.

During his 1919 trial for allegedly obstructing American military recruitment during World War I, at which he testified in his own defense, the prosecution asked Scott Nearing whether he was a " pacifist socialist.

This view, that Nearing chose to " drop out " of politics and society itself and live life as a rugged agrarian individualist at one with nature, is a common interpretation — and certainly one with some merit.

Debate Held at the Lexington Theatre, Sunday Afternoon, February 12, 1922: Affirmative, John Haynes Holmes, Minister of the Community Church ; Negative, Scott Nearing, Lecturer in the Rand School.

* The Scott and Helen Nearing Papers housed at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

Nearing the end of the book, Mulch discovers that Artemis has cleared him of all charges and tasked him with restoring Artemis ' memory, which is wiped at the end.

The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

Nearing the end of his life, he was among the richest magnates in the Commonwealth, with his estates estimated at about 4 million zlotys.

Nearing retirement, and perhaps a bit exhausted after 40 + summers at camp, Mr. Rothchild and Mr. Martin ( as Bomze was then known ) were ready to sell.

Nearing the end of his career Green led the Mond excavation of the Bucheum at Armant from 1929 to 1930.

Nearing authored a series of pamphlets, published by the Rand School, one of which, The Great Madness: A Victory for the American Plutocracy, resulted in his indictment under the Espionage Act for alleged " obstruction to the recruiting and enlistment service of the United States.

" This indictment came down in April 1918, but it was not until February 1919 — that is, several months after the war in Europe had actually ended — that the trial against Nearing and the Rand School actually commenced.

Nearing graduated from high school in 1901 and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Law School, " where corporate bias so violated his idealism that after one year he quit.

At the Wharton School, Nearing was deeply influenced by Simon Nelson Patten, an innovative and unconventional educator and founding father of the American Economic Association.

Nearing's father was a small businessman and stockbroker, his mother a vigorous, energetic, and idealistic woman who Nearing later credited for providing an appreciation of the higher things in life — nature, books, and the arts.

As Nearing later recalled

Half a century later, writing in his 1972 autobiography, The Making of a Radical, Scott Nearing described himself as a pacifist, a socialist, and a vegetarian.

Nearing retirement, on June 1, 1928, he accepted an appointment as the first President of the Council and Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Laboratories ( which was later called the National Research Council of Canada ).

Socialist writer Upton Sinclair told Nearing in no uncertain terms in an open letter that " You do not belong in a university.

Following deliberation, the jury found Scott Nearing not guilty but the American Socialist Society guilty on the third and fourth counts of the indictment.

The dramatic decline of the size and strength of the Socialist Party in the first years of the 1920s took its toll on Nearing.

With regard to political action, Nearing produced concrete figures to show that since 1912, membership in the Socialist Party had " steadily declined.

* The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York City, February 5 to 19th, 1919.

In 1921 Nearing was, along with his colleague Louis Lochner, a co-founder of a forerunner of the Federated Press, a news service which sent out domestic and international news releases and picture mats five days a week to the labor and radical press in America.

Upon his return to the United States, Nearing authored a book offering his views on the Chinese situation, entitled Whither China?

He wondered anxiously what this vision could mean, and his soul was uneasy as it searched for understanding.

After a person died there was a transitional period of thirty to forty days while their soul searched Tuonela, the land of dead, and tried to find their place there.

Sometimes sickly, at other times testing his strength with that curious band of roving exiles who searched the land above the rippling railroad ties, he explored his soul as he sought to touch the distant past.