Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which outfit is to lead the League will be decided tomorrow when the two ball clubs stage a doubleheader here at Soldiers Field. Captain Eddie Loughlin and Drib Braggiotti will be pitching to a Quaker nine that isn't quite as strong at bat as in the field...
Timothy Trebitsch near Budapest in 1879. Going to England at 20, he tacked "Lincoln" on his name, became a Lutheran missionary, then an Anglican curate, then a Quaker. As secretary to a cocoa manufacturer he turned to politics, got elected an M. P. A censor during the War, Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere...
...VALIANT WIFE-Margaret Wilson -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) How a U. S. privateer captain landed in Dartmoor Prison in 1812, and how his Quaker wife got him out; supposedly founded on fact. Romantic but not first-rate...
...outside chance to tie for the League championship, the powerful Cornell quintet takes the floor against Harvard's cellar five this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the New Indoor Athletic Building. If Cornell wins, and if Princeton defeats Pennsylvania tonight, the Ithacans will have equalled the Quaker record of nine victories and three defeats...
Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Secretary of State, and R. Douglas Stuart, vice president of Quaker Oats Co.. were elected directors of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, succeeding the late Alexander Legge and the late Walker Downes Hines, onetime (1919-20) Director General of U. S. railroads...