Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair...
Central figure and near-hero of Wah'Kon-Tah is the late Laban J. Miles, a plump little Indian Agent who went to live with the Osages in 1878, died among them last year. An honest, endeavoring man, a Quaker like his nephew Herbert Hoover, who spent part of his boyhood at his uncle's agency, Agent Miles minded not only his charges' ways but his own, became the Osages' trusted friend. He kept a journal and kept it to himself. One of the ways Agent Miles fought the Indians' inevitable degeneration was by administering...
...Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble Oil), Frederick Lockwood Lipman (Wells Fargo), Paul Shoup (Southern Pacific...
...deifying man and humanizing God. Modernism is the religion of Cain." among the members of the Fundamentals Association are Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME. April 25), Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, famed Seattle pastor, Board Chairman Henry Parsons Crowell of Quaker Oats Co. They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said she-"The world crisis is pointing to nearness of His coming because it fulfills closely His prediction of a crisis to precede His coming." William Bell Riley...
...touched upon in the course of our various talks. There was a dinner last night at the French Embassy, where the conversation was free & easy ! Today I lunched with them all here in Downing Street, after which there was a sort of smoker which was in no sense a Quaker meeting...