Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week, Rev. Horace E. Coleman, 64, his wife and his son, Horace Jr., 22, clasped hands on the rear seat of their automobile in a tightly closed garage until asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from the exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This...
...them visit for just a short time, some of them go there regularly. They are so many that the big staff of underlings at No. 71 could scarcely be expected to know any but the most important ones. They all, of course, know Myron Charles Taylor, the handsome Quaker whose office on the 17th floor is labeled "Chairman of the Finance Committee." They all know "Big Jim"? James Augustine Farrell?who for 20 years has occupied the 18th floor office labeled "President." And they all know "Mr. Filbert," a keen-eyed man whose bald, round head is said...
Able Berlin Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker has worked long and hard for the slender New York Evening Post and for its slender Quaker brother, Philadelphia's Public Ledger. Last year he won the Pulitzer Prize for correspondence with his 10,000-mi. travel diary through Russia. Pleased, the Post last spring assigned him to survey Europe, sensationalized his findings in a series of articles called Fighting the Red Trade Menace. Earlier this winter Correspondent Knickerbocker was again on the move, this time touring Germany in company with James Abbe, a onetime society photographer. Their discoveries, meaty copy...
...Because of indications that Mrs. Stanford lived several hours after the crash, Aviatrix Ruth Nichols, Quaker, pacifist, obtained a pistol permit in Westchester County, N. Y. so that she might signal for help in case of a forced landing in a wilderness...
Oldest Philadelphia department store, older than Wanamaker's is Strawbridge & Clothier, established in 1868 by Quaker Justus C. Strawbridge, who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. Into the big Clothier family, in 1885. was born Robert Clarkson Clothier. His father, brother of the founder, was by this time become Presbyterian and rich. Young Bob went to Princeton, where he became editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian and a member of the senior council. A good scholar though no Phi Beta Kappa man, he showed no interest in his family's mercantile tradition. "Bob" Clothier became employment...