Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ferdinand Wagner. Excluded from serving in Washington with New York State's Harriman, Wagner has cast his lot with Stevenson. The son of the Senate author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, Bob Wagner, 46, bears a name enshrined by organized labor. A Catholic (his wife is a Quaker), Wagner is an adequate administrator and a lackluster campaigner who would have little appeal in the South or the farm states...
...moments of acceptance and reconciliation come, if at all, in fragments of visionary and mystical experience. Such a moment came to T. E. Lawrence in the desert among the Bedouins, when he visualized God as "pure mind." It came to George Fox, who tried to institutionalize it in the Quaker movement, whose members were to be guided by an "inner light." It came to Nijinsky as he made the final entry in his diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning, but I feel what she wants...
...President Donold Bradford Lourie, 56, succeeded retiring Chairman John Stuart, 79, as chief executive of Quaker Oats Co. Alabama-born Don Lourie, an All-America quarterback at Princeton (class of '22), joined Quaker Oats at graduation, rose in sales and advertising departments to the presidency in 1947. Named to replace Stuart as chairman in September is his younger brother, former president and vice chairman R. (for Robert) Douglas Stuart, 70, who has served the family-founded Quaker Oats for half a century, recently retired after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Canada...
After a marriage that soon ended in divorce, Uchimura went to the U.S. At the Quaker-run Elwyn Training School for feeble-minded children in Elwyn, Pa., he learned about the love-centered, noninstitutional Christianity for which he yearned. He graduated from Amherst in 1887 and spent a few months at Hartford Theological Seminary. But American seminary training, he decided, was not suitable for Christian work in Japan, and Uchimura went back home...
Only Steve Friedberg, the most powerful Quaker threat, should defeat Dick Hook at 157. The rest of the varsity wrestlers are favored in their contests...