Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 10,000 other lowans flocked to the trim Quaker town to honor its only famous son. Hoover dutifully examined the two-room frame cottage where he was born, nodded as the old wooden cradle was pointed out to him, took a drink from a gourd at the wooden pump out back. Did it all look familiar? Hoover smiled, explained candidly: "I left this home when I was four years old and moved to a house across the street. I don't remember anything about this house...
Social Security. Under the weeping willow trees outside, Hoover sat down with state functionaries to an Iowa lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch...
Died. Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, 85, Quaker patriarch co-founder and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee from 1917 to 1928; in Haverford, Pa. Longtime philosophy professor at Haverford College (1904-34), he directed the spending of $25 million for relief after World War I; later, as chairman of European relief, helped care for war orphans in Spain and Jews in Germany...
Publishing House. Pendle Hill is also an active publishing enterprise. This venture, now in general charge of Clement Alexandre, an able and articulate young English non-Quaker, has broken even with a list of some 30 pamphlets and half a dozen books. Most of them are written by Friends, and expound Quakerly thought on current economic and social problems, and Quaker religious practices and history. Pendle Hill is thus the Society's chief U.S. publishing center...
...most important activities at Pendle Hill is the conferences of non-Quaker groups which are held there. Trade unions have found the Quaker seclusion and quiet ideal for various types of meetings. They are welcomed, for many Friends are intensely concerned with labor problems, especially the necessity of achieving harmony between labor and management. Few expect the spiritual influence of Pendle Hill to be immediate or sensational; they are content to make a beginning. Nor are all Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated...