Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advance Continued. At the time Ed Martin joined up, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, the cherubic, wealthy Quaker millowner and cold, shrewd defender of high tariffs, was rising to power. "Uncle Joe" Grundy, as Martin still calls him, had been dictating tariff bills since 1897. His masterpiece was the Smoot-Hawley bill of 1930, which precipitated an economic world war and was one underlying cause of World War II. To some Joe Grundy was an ogre. To his friends, the white-haired, thee-saying Quaker was just an old-fashioned businessman. The machine served Grundy...
City College's President Harry N. Wright, a mild-mannered, meticulous Quaker who loves problems, never runs short of them. Examples: cramming the overgrown student body into buildings designed for half the present enrollment; trying to counteract the slanders and slights that City College sometimes receives because of its 85% Jewish student body...
...Soong, daughters of China's Premier T. V. Soong and nieces of the Chiangs, flew east from San Francisco to school. Laurette, 18, was bound for Washington's Trinity College (Roman Catholic), Mary Jane and Catherine, 16 and 15, for Baltimore and Long Island prep schools, both Quaker...
...Vining, a Quaker graduate of Germantown Friends School and Bryn Mawr (cum laude), once taught English at a girls' school, library science at the University of North Carolina. In recent years she has written historical romances and biographies for teenagers. A childless widow, she publishes under her maiden name, Elizabeth Janet Gray...
...With Quaker faith in good works, Thomas Jones decided to give his students community chores. A Nashville judge paroled young Negro offenders to Fisk "custody." Soon Fisk "internes" were running social centers in Nashville's tawdry red-light district, in rural Whiteville, in Indianapolis, had made case studies of racial tension in 67 cities. By 1944, local hostility had retreated enough for Fisk to hold an interracial institute at Nashville, with whites and Negroes sharing dormitories and dining rooms...