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Logan was an 18th Century gentleman farmer, an author of pamphlets on crops and soil, and a Quaker pacifist. He lived on a 500-acre estate near Germantown, Pa., dabbled in medicine, and habitually wore homespun clothes to encourage domestic manufacture. In 1798, Logan saw the U.S., attacked and insulted, preparing for war. French warships had seized U.S. vessels. The French foreign minister, Talleyrand, had cynically tried to exact what amounted to a tribute from the infant country. Nevertheless, Quaker Logan viewed U.S. intentions with consternation, and as a self-appointed peacemaker sailed for France...
...eighteen matches played by the visiting Crimson on Friday and Saturday, the squad was able to salvage only three, as they came out on the short end of a 6 to 3 score in the Quaker contest, and were swamped by a strong Tiger team...
...ninety dreary minutes, John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts to a befuddled rustler. While the action follows through to the hoped-for conclusion, the climax happily...
Opportunities to work in Europe and in the United States this summer with rehabilitation detachments of the American Friends Service Committee will be described tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock by Mrs. Robert Dodds, college secretary for the Quaker group, in the Phillips Brooks House parlor...
There are two main groups which will tour the U.S. during the summer. They are the so-called "Peace Caravans" which will work with Quaker organizations throughout the country. Also in operation will be a series of race relations units. Opportunities to work in the field of race relations and other fields of social tensions are open in communities composed of various minority nationalities throughout the country...