Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support the isolationist America First Committee. Young Henry studied at M.I.T., the University of Bonn and Harvard graduate school in preparation for a career in the family textile business. Later, he founded a successful sweater factory, and married the daughter of Philadelphia Banker Alfred Scattergood, a well-known Quaker...
MOVIE-TV BATTLE will soon be intensified by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer giveaway gimmick aimed at luring children and parents away from TV sets. Quaker Oats, will insert tickets to two new M-G-M movies in each, of 80 million packages of cereal. The free tickets can be used only by children under 12. The catch: they must be accompanied by an adult-who will have to pay regular admission...
Congratulations for your clarifying article on Vice President Nixon and his responsibilities in the present Administration. As a close personal friend of Whittaker Chambers, whom I got to know after he became a fellow Quaker, I have had a front seat from which to view the amazing and irresponsible campaign of vilification against this dedicated patriot. Many Quakers, I am ashamed to say, were taken in by it and became a part...
Nothing is too insignificant to escape their wrenlike curiosity. "You'd be surprised at the signs," says Mrs. Gill. "I noted them down. The ones we saw all over the United States were the Clabber Girl advertisement, Quaker State motor oil, Burma-Shave, Harold's Club of Reno and Jesse James's Hideout." Mrs. Gill has also noted every highway sign she has seen that needs correcting. "America," she says, "is full of wrong directions...
...intervals between operations (three or four may be needed for each patient), the girls pass from one Quaker home to another for visits. They are in such demand that the families vie with each other for the chance to put them up. Said one host: "When the girls first moved in, we looked for signs of homesickness or some uneasiness in their attitude toward us. But they couldn't be more cheerful or more delightful as guests." The girls have picked up enough English to get by without an interpreter; they have adopted sleek Italian hairdos, colored ballerina slippers...