Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They held to the belief of their founder George Fox (1624-91), that no one could know Christ without "quaking and trembling." So, although they called themselves Friends the irreverent called them Quakers. Today there are 160,000 members of the Society of Friends. Their organized groups, called "meetings," are spotted irrelevantly over the map of the world. Largest is the London Yearly Meeting, with 20,000 members. Next in size is the Five Year Meeting of Indiana, located near Richmond, Ind. with 16,000 members who differ from most Quakers in having formal services with paid pastors. The combined...
Last week's meeting in Philadelphia offered an extraordinary view of this extraordinary church. The only Quaker President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover, never an active churchman, was absent but many another famed Quaker was present. Quartered at two Quaker colleges Haverford and Swarthmore, both in Philadelphia's environs, the Friends met daily in Swarthmore's roomy Field House and its towering limestone chapel. Foreign delegates soon learned that the chapel was given by Philadelphia's rich Quaker Clothier family, while the other-half of the ownership of the city's famed department store...
...Quaker T. Edmund Harvey, a British M. P., and James G. Douglas, a onetime...
Director Lubitsch's legendary experiment is not so fantastic as it sounds. Mushrooms, which sprout overnight, sprout erratically. Until an Irish Quaker from West Chester, Pa. took a hand in the procedure 33 years ago, mushroom growing was a matter of almost pure chance. Last week the industry Edward Henry Jacob built up from, a six-foot plot in his cellar was the largest mushroom business in the U. S., and it was busy reaping the harvest from history's most important single improvement in mushroom growing...
...first note of awe in Author O'Connor's account comes with his description of how the Guggenheims got into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent...