Word: haverford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who last winter had to hail a ride in a truck to reach the State House in time to make a speech, bought an autogyro for commuting between his home in Haverford, Philadelphia suburb, and Harrisburg, learned...
...idea of President Tily. It had been worked over and approved by the Clothiers and the Strawbridges who, as sons of the founders, own most of the stock, carry on family traditions. Morris Lewis Clothier is chairman of the board, a benefactor of the Quaker colleges Swarthmore and Haverford. His brother, Isaac H. Clothier, vice president, is famed as a sportsman and horse fancier. (Their cousin, Robert C. Clothier, who did not go into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis...
...which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Swarthmore College, both Hicksite. Even in hidebound Philadelphia, for friendship as well as economy, Hicksite and Orthodox Monthly Meetings have been worshipping together during the past few years. Last week the Yearly Meetings of the two sects in Philadelphia officially...
...years ago the Journal became exercised over the plight of local laundrymen who were required to pay fees not only to the Benevolent Association but also to the city, under a new ordinance. Editor Jee, who had taken a degree in Political Science at Haverford College, Pa., exhorted the laundrymen to Organize. They did, and soon ran afoul of the Benevolent Association. In his little Canal Street print shop, crusading Editor Jee's ink-brush splashed out pages of copy flaying the Association for "corrupt practices." Frightened advertisers pulled out of the Journal while Editor Jee raged...
Edward Rotan Sargent '36, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, has been elected captain of the Varsity squash team. He is a graduate of Haverford School, and has been a nationally ranked junior tennis player...