Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stresses & Strains. Actually, of all labor problems referred to the mediation service so far in 1967, about 88% have been settled. "Despite stresses and strains," says Director William E. Simkin, a pipe-puffing, peace-seeking Quaker, "the bargaining process is working reasonably well." But the remaining 12% of the disputes present major headaches for industry and for the economy as a whole. If the Ford strike lasts until Thanksgiving, former CEA Chairman Walter Heller last week warned the Economic Club of Detroit, the resulting drop in the gross national product could reach $4 billion...
...relentlessly uplifting honeypot. A first novel by the author of A Man Called Peter, this book tells of the Cutter Gap mountain mission in East Tennessee back in 1912: isolated mountaineers, moonshine, feuds, babies. Author Marshall concentrates laboriously on three priggish mission staffers: the dewy-eyed Christy, a saintly Quaker lady, and a bombastic young preacher. The women are courageous and silent sufferers, the men are boys, the children are rough little angels. To paraphrase one mountain woman, the book "sort of wears the bright...
Penn scored what may be its only Ivy victory and Brown racked up the first of what will certainly be many Ivy defeats in another League contest at Philadelphia. Bill Creeden and Cabot Knowlton led a sporadic Quaker offense and the defense looked good against the League's weakest attack. The score...
Died. Hannah Milhous Nixon, 82, mother of Richard; of a heart attack; in Whittier, Calif. Son Dick's career benefited repeatedly from her Quaker faith and stout support. When rumors of a secret fund threatened his vice-presidency bid in 1952, Hannah wired his running mate to be "guided aright" and stand up for her son's integrity. Dwight Eisenhower read the telegram over nationwide radio and obeyed her orders...
...Regarding the Quaker Action Group and sending supplies to Viet Nam [Aug. 11], Friends have sent medical supplies to South Viet Nam, the National Liberation Front, and North Viet Nam. We have had a concern for all victims of the war, not merely those in the north...