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...weeks since October, most of the nations of the West and a host of private charitable organizations, ranging from non-sectarian groups such as the International Rescue Committee to Catholic, Jewish, Quaker and other religious charities, have pitched in to help. But Austrians still carry most of the burden. Of the 170,000 refugees who have poured over the border since October, 65,000 remain in Austria, and the cost of maintaining them runs...
Senate House Methodist 18 84 Roman Catholic 11 75 Baptist 14 55 Presbyterian 13 52 Episcopal 12 45 Congregationalist 8 19 Lutheran 4 15 Disciples of Christ 2 14 Jewish 2 8 Mormon 3 4 Evangelical and Reformed 2 4 Unitarian 2 3 Quaker 2 2 Church of Christ 4 Universalist 2 Christian Scientist 2 Apostolic Christian 1 Evangelical Free Church 1 Hindu...
...quickly landed on her feet again. But no sooner had she taken over her new job as librarian of the William Jeanes Memorial Library, owned by the Quaker monthly meeting of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., than she kicked up another uproar by refusing to take the Pennsylvania state loyalty oath. Though she was not legally required to take it, there were storms of protest, but her employers decided to keep her on. Then the Fund for the Republic rushed in and offered the meeting $5,000 for its "courageous and effective defense of democratic principles." That put the case of Mary...
Friendly Persuasion (Anthony Perkins; Epic). A movie tune with lyrics in Quaker lingo ("Thee is mine . . . thee pleasures me") that make the canny Quakers look pretty silly. It has a mighty purty tune, by that old Quaker from Russia, Dimitri Tiomkin...
...somehow turns out to be one of the most pleasant motion pictures to come out in ever so long. If not great drama-in fact, as far as construction is concerned, scarcely drama at all-the film still admirably achieves its small goal of recreating the life of a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the Civil...