Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Ramsay MacDonald would be cheered and heartened by the dynamic young Frenchman. The last time Flandin and MacDonald made a night of it in London (TIME, April 18, 1932) the Scot said afterward, "Conversation was free and easy-a sort of smoker which was in no sense a Quaker meeting!" That was apropos of the Danube Conference, which flopped and fizzled. This week the great questions between France and Britain...
...nation. In the Episcopal Cathedral Bishop Herman Page holds forth ably. Methodist residents of what they call the "Fourth City" know that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
...Blue defense with any regularity, and he was held to six points. The Harvard team seemed slow and unsure in comparison to their stronger rivals. Captain Boys, who started at guard, was again sent out on fouls, and even Long Bill Gray was rendered ineffectual by the close Quaker guarding...
...young Samuel Jr. His arm still black-banded for the death of his wife last February, he hovered solicitously over his father, grinned at the Press, was quieter in court. Occasionally he stole a glance at the second row of the spectators' benches. There, straight and prim as a Quaker, sat his pretty mother. Last July she had followed her husband back from their European exile, travelling tourist class on the Majestic, announcing that she had come to stand by him. In Chicago she had abashed vociferous newshawks by gravely quoting : "Sweet are the uses of adversity...
Career: Of 300-year-old native stock, he was youngest of ten children in a Quaker family. Graduated from the Hudson High School, he supported himself by stenography before going West to matriculate at the University of Michigan. There he waited table, sold books, got his law degree in 1905. The great copper-mining camp at Butte, Mont, appealed to him as a place where a young lawyer without influence might make a living. Arrived there, he was preparing to push on to Portland, Ore. when two sharpers bilked him of his bankroll. He managed to get part...