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...George Fox was a hard man for any century to live with. In 17th century England, already a melee of warring religions and political factions, he founded a rudely revolutionary new movement, which became the Society of Friends. A weaver's son from Leicestershire, Quaker Fox preached "God's free gospel" loudly and with a countryman's directness. He attacked other religions indiscriminately, and the fierce pacifism of his followers was, politically speaking, highly suspicious...
...city for 60,000 people is rising dramatically from 5,000 acres that were wood lot and farmland less than a year ago. By 1954's end, if all goes according to plan, Levittown, Pa. will be a complete community, ranking in size with such older Quaker State sisters as Bethlehem, York, Lancaster, Johnstown and Chester...
...group had banded together before Nixon's senatorial campaign. They were all ardent admirers of Nixon, the young Quaker Congressman, and wanted him to run for the Senate. They raised some $25,000 for his campaign against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. "After he was elected," explained a fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel...
Apparently impressed by Hagan's scraping and by an 1860 Cincinnati Daily Gazette description of the house as "a Quaker tint of tan," the advisory committee members after 90 minutes' deliberation ruled for "Quaker Brown." "Quaker Brown" was defined by one committeeman as "just about the shade of Mr. Hubbs's suit"-a light chocolate. Said Hagan: "If we get within three shades of the original color anyway, we'll be lucky...
...seems like an old man, but he is old for his years. He was born in Yorba Linda, near Los Angeles, where his parents had a lemon grove. They wished it had been oranges-which were the promissory golden fruit that had helped attract Dick's maternal grandfather, Quaker Franklin Milhous, to California from his home in Butlerville, Ind. In 1897 he had loaded lumber, doors, windows, cows and horses on a freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon, who had also come out from...