Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chest and get some out and warm it up each morning. I suppose it will last for a week or ten days without getting sour.' " Interrogated as to whether they might add Coolidge Porridge to their line of cereals, expressed great amusement, Quaker replied: Oats Co. "Heavens...
...Episcopalian and the Lutheran are harder on the Baptist, the Congregationalist, the Presbyterian and the Methodist, than these latter denominations are on one another. But the Lutheran and the Episcopalian discriminate to an equal extent against one another. The Episcopalian also shows notable antipathy to the Quaker, presumably because the forms of religious worship of the two are so antithetical...
Well does a U. S. President know that he must step gingerly among religious sectarians, and always speak softly to all sects. President Hoover, Quaker, has been particularly cautious. His victory over Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith was fraught with religious feeling. When he sends a greeting to a religious convention-as to the Catholics at Omaha (TIME, Sept. 29) or to the Lutherans at Milwaukee (TIME, Oct. 20) he tries hard to be noncommittal. But sometimes a President, or his aide, slips.* At once some sensitive soul cries out in anguish or anger. This happened last week. A prominent...
...remaining 16.4 percent is divided among the smaller denominations as follows: Baptist, 188: Protestant, 163: Christian Science, 87; Lutheran, 82, Christian Church, 54, Reformed church, 42: Universalist, 27: Quaker, 27: Latter Day Saints, 22: Greek Orthodox, 20, Union Church, 10: Evangelical Church, eight, United Church of Canada, six, Swedenborgian, five: Buddhist, four: Church of New Jerusalem, three: Ethical Culture, three: United Brethren, Mohammedan, and Hindu, two each: Russian Orthodox, Humanism, New Church, Plymouth Brethren Bahai. Armenian Church, Church of God, Laurentian, Seventh Day Adventist, and Church of Christ, one each...
...Quaker President Herbert Hoover should say: "We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!"-that would be news. In Vatican City last week Editor Count G. Dalla Torre of the Papal newsorgan Osservatore Romano thought he had news nearly as big. Just arrived was a communication from Jean Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris (TIME, Dec. 2). Joyously the prelate reported that he had just had audience with the President of France, M. Gaston ("Gastou-net") Doumergue, stanch Protestant, who said (said the Cardinal): "Your Eminence is a representative among us of that immense moral force...