Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler started scrapping early in life and has continued to fight it out on that line, letting the news stories fall where they may. With the help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania Hicksite Quaker 52 years ago, Smedley Butler is "still one in good standing, so far as I know." Sixteen when the Spanish-American War was fanned into flame, young Smedley was eager to enlist, threatened to run away unless his parents gave their permission. Anomalous Quakers, they complied, and as his father...
...QUAKER MILITANT: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER- Albert Mordell -Houghton Mifflin...
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was a Massachusetts farm boy and a Quaker, who lifted up his eyes to Parnassus and neighboring hills. Soon his poems began appearing in newspapers; he left the farm and took to journalism. Even in his salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause...
...wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed by reform. The U. S. had no great novelist to dramatize the curse of childhood.* But it did have Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859, an Irish Quaker. Her father had been apprenticed to a jeweler, turned to law, helped nominate Lincoln at Chicago in 1860, lived to serve 29 fruitful years in the House of Representatives. Her mother was an aristocratic Bonsall. As a girl Florence was taken to Pittsburgh by her father to see a glass...
Ennis H. Coale, 20; is a good Methodist and a member of the Epworth League. When he entered the University of Maryland last autumn, he declined to join the R. O. T. C. Quaker students at Maryland are exempt from military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...