Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't want to be selling insurance in Italy. . . . Germany will get such a 24 dose in the next six months that a lot of Germans will feel that there is a great deal of soundness in the Quaker religion...
...convivial ways. He joined the poverty-praising Franciscans, later got a parish in poverty-ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other as God bears with us all"). On one civic committee he sat with a Quaker, William Martin. When ever the evils of liquor were discussed Quaker Martin would say: "Ah, Theobald Mathew, if thou wouldst take the matter up." One day Father Mathew swore off whisky punch, signed a total abstinence pledge...
Daggert, now 46, is president of a small, independent union at the Quaker City Iron Works, a Philadelphia plant engaged in secret war work. Last February the union petitioned the War labor Board for a 10% wage increase, got no action through six irritating months. Despite the pleas of Daggert, and of servicemen sent in by the Army and Navy, the 350 members of the union voted unanimously to go on "a holiday...
When Perry Hayden, Quaker and Tecumseh, Mich., miller, heard a sermon on this text (that life evolves out of death), he wanted to prove it literally. So he planted 360 kernels of high-yielding Bald Rock wheat. Then Quaker Hayden had another idea: he would dramatize the Biblical injunction of tithing (giving a tenth of one's income to God), so he pledged a tenth of his harvest to his meeting...
...Bargain Counter. The man responsible for the Quaker uprising is bustling, chronically cheerful William Drought Cox, a 33-year-old Manhattan lumber broker, who bought the Philadelphia franchise last winter at a forced-sale bargain price (reportedly $40,000 down and notes for $200,000 of back debts...