Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hannibal Hooker sets out from his Hoosier Quaker home to become a minister and to mend the world singlehanded. Before long he finds himself extolling Mammon in the pulpit of a brand-new stone temple and wishing he loved a brand-new, stone-cold wife for something besides her money. His mind cracks, and he disappears...
Jackson is on the secretarial staff of the Quaker organization which fed 2,000,000 children in Germany after the War, and now is carrying on rescue work in Spain. The Friends also maintain work camps for college graduates and undergraduates in Flint, Michigan, the Tennessee Valley, Ponncraft, Pennsylvania, and on the delta of the Mississippi River...
Logan Pearsall Smith's autobiography, written aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, is eloquent, charming, but hardly exemplary. Descended from a family of fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...
Mindful of German dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers, finally got hold of Quaker Jones on the Queen Mary. Despite his pleas, the Record splashed the story on its front page last week...
Philadelphia Friends called the publicity "tragic" and, in view of the fact that the Record's Publisher Julius David Stern is a Jew, ''the worst crime in newspaper history." Their concern was justified when, on the day the Quaker delegation reached Berlin, Dr. Goebbels' organ Der Angriff sniggered: "We hope they will make themselves known. . . . Then we will know, you see, when to begin to quake-quake duly before the Quakers...