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...other leader was apple-cheeked, 85-year-old Uncle Joe Grundy, the wealthy Quaker mill-owner whose name has long been a synonym for high-tariff Republicanism and who has fed and guided the forces of Pennsylvania's conservatism for nearly half a century. Uncle Joe is quite deaf, scorns such contraptions as hearing aids, and conserves his energy. While he planned the strategy for his camp this week, the tactics were in the hands of his handyman, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, who doubles in brass as president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy, Owlett & Co. were...
Howard Brinton is a friendly little man with a fuzz of silvery hair and a serene face in which a profound wisdom of the spirit does not imply a complete innocence of the world. One day last week he was discussing the nature and purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went...
...could not fail to sense that Friends at Pendle Hill were infused with a true Quaker spirit, relaxed but reverent, and that in their three chief activities-worship, study and work-they were seeking solutions for three of the great problems of the age: the alienation of class from class in society, the alienation of the individual from the community, the alienation of man from...
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...
...good part of Lyons' story is convincing. The Quaker boy putting himself through college by delivering laundry, working in a Sierra mine camp, becoming a brilliant, wealthy engineer-all this is good, moving Horatio Alger stuff. And Lyons is doubtless on the side of historical justice when he insists that President Hoover was 1) not responsible for the depression, and 2) anticipated many of the economic remedies for which his successor was later hailed...