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...Black Notebook. When no one at Ford headquarters in Dearborn would take him on as a salesman, he quit the company, went out on his own and got a job in the sales office of the Ford assembly plant in Chester, Pa. Impressed by the way the aggressive Iacocca whipped lagging Ford dealerships to higher sales, his boss (Charles Beacham, now Ford's marketing vice president) took him along when he progressed to sales manager of a region stretching from Pennsylvania to Florida...
...best articles I have read in many months. It was sympathetic, objective, friendly, and expressed a fitting admiration for one of our outstanding authors in the U.S. today. THAYER A. WESTLAKE Chester...
Most inherited their faith. Five of the first ten Presidents were Episcopalian because in Virginia, where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called...
...past PBH has always worked through existing institutions, such as established settlement houses, prisons or mental hospitals, according to Chester E. Finn '65, director of the program...
...because of the Quaker influence that still has the campus telephone operator say "Thank thee." Almost conventionally liberal, Swarthmore sent an ambulance to Loyalist Spain in the 1930s, began deliberately recruiting Negro students in the early 1940s. Swarthmoreans analyze disarmament, criticize the McCarran Act, lead civil rights demonstrations, from Chester, Pa., to Cambridge, Md. Last fall 60 student pickets got arrested in Chester...