Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miller's statement last night did more than reveal Yale's withdrawal from major-league grid ranks. It was an unequivocal declaration that the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring professional football, and that the Elis want no further grid relations with their Quaker neighbors...
...horse Clemson North Car. State 20-7 Tigers over Wolfpack Tulane Auburn 20-6 Green wave will roll T. C. U. Arkansas 14-7 Frogs are horny Georgia Tech Howard 20-0 Best wreck in years Texas A. & M. Tulsa 21-0 No upset here Penn. Maryland 26-0 Quaker power prevails Rice Centenary 20-0 Owis win even by daylight Notre Dame College of Pacific 20-0 Score can be pronounced Marquette Wisconsin 7-0 Badgered again Fordham West Virginia 14-6 Rams too tough Navy Cincinnsti 13-0 Could be upet here Army Williams 20-0 On brave...
Thomas is proud of his varied activities, mum on how much they add to his bank roll. Good guess at his annual earnings would be $200,000. Of this, $15,000 goes to Buranelli, $5,000 to Sherwin. The remainder helps Thomas to run his estate on Quaker Hill in New York's Dutchess County, where he lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra...
Thomas spends his summers on Quaker Hill, his winters at Hampshire House. He devotes a lot of time to athletics, likes to ski, ride, swim and dance. On Saturday nights he holds square dances at his recreation barn, with music provided by his own four-piece orchestra. In summer his chief pastime is softball, which he plays eagerly if not too well. Famed among the sandlot intellectuals of New York and Connecticut is his softball team, Nine Old Men, which usually includes a raft of celebrities. He likes to dress up in funny rube costumes...
Great were the pressures upon the President, the State Department, Great Britain to put humanity first, the fate of the last great European democracy second. The American Friends [Quaker] Service Committee (Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity), the Commission for Polish Relief, Inc., Herbert Hoover pleaded for humanity. Most influential of these voices belonged to Herbert Hoover, who during and after World War I distributed $5,234,028,208* worth of relief to Europe. Mr. Hoover announced that his European Food Distribution Commission had asked Great Britain and Germany to consent to U. S. aid. Said he: "There...