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...When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State. Manlius sent Tuition Plan 20 contracts within ten days. The 100-odd institutions which now use the Plan include such prep schools as Ashley Hall in Charleston, S.C., Friends' Select (Quaker) School in Philadelphia, Riverdale Country School in New York, St. John's Military Academy in Delafield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Easy Payments | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Guest speaker at the meeting will be Edward Miller, secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. Gerald F. Else '29, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, will preside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Camp Plans Will Be Discussed at P.B.H. Meeting | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Staving off a dangerous Quaker scoring threat in the last minutes of play, the Crimson basketball five nipped out bottom-place Pennsylvania 40 to 39 before a small crowd last night in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Basketball Quintet Nips Quakers 40-39 | 3/13/1941 | See Source »

...unite into a body called The Coordinating Council for French Relief, with headquarters in Manhattan's French Chamber of Commerce, of which Pierre Carder is president. Most of this relief is distributed through The American Friends Service Committee, which is the only organization with representatives in France. The Quaker Committee has been distributing about $50,000 worth of food, clothing and medical supplies a month in Occupied and Unoccupied France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Troubled Exiles | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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