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...Because of indications that Mrs. Stanford lived several hours after the crash, Aviatrix Ruth Nichols, Quaker, pacifist, obtained a pistol permit in Westchester County, N. Y. so that she might signal for help in case of a forced landing in a wilderness...
Oldest Philadelphia department store, older than Wanamaker's is Strawbridge & Clothier, established in 1868 by Quaker Justus C. Strawbridge, who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. Into the big Clothier family, in 1885. was born Robert Clarkson Clothier. His father, brother of the founder, was by this time become Presbyterian and rich. Young Bob went to Princeton, where he became editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian and a member of the senior council. A good scholar though no Phi Beta Kappa man, he showed no interest in his family's mercantile tradition. "Bob" Clothier became employment...
Episcopalians, 1112; Jewish, 808; Catholic, 756; Congregational, 480; Methodiat, 461; Presbyterian, 383; Unitarians, 361; Baptists, 215; Protestant, 175; Christian Science, 103; Lutheran, 90; Church of Christ, 52; Universalist, 29; Quaker, 28; Greek Orthodox, 28; Miscellaneous...
...sent me and "tap-tap" on some Coupon Bond Eagle Brand writing paper that President Sam (Alias "Sidney Louis," TIME, July 13) Willson, sent me and with a Victor typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor Adding Machine Co. sent me. My feet rest on a choice "Quaker" rug that Dwight L. Armstrong. Vice President The Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly...
...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...