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...debate was over. Four members-a Quaker, a Pacifist, a Laborite, an independent Laborite-walked out the door that signified they were voting against the measure; 457 members walked out on the Government side. Politically, Great Britain was ready for war. The King put his hand to the measure in the traditional Norman phrase: "Le roy le veult...
...Quaker, "A Friendly Whiskey," has been made in the U. S. for 50 years. Today it is marketed by a subsidiary of Schenley Distillers Corp. Some members of the Society of Friends object mildly to Quaker Oil, Quaker Oats, the Quaker Line, Quaker Novelty Puffing. But they object vigorously to Old Quaker whiskey. They object to Old Quaker's implicit identification with the "purity and integrity" of the Quaker faith. They resent the implication that Quakers drink; they aren't supposed to. The Society is displeased that the Old Quaker trademark is a picture of William Penn, standard...
...Quakers began hectoring Schenley several years ago. Although it had no intention of yielding its 50-year-old name, a valuable property, the firm agreed gradually to reduce the size of the Old Quaker's picture, to kill him off completely at the first opportunity. To Friends, however, the Old Quaker still looks pretty big and bibulous. Friend Malcolm Read Lovell, authorized by a Manhattan Quaker meeting to study the problem, suggested a boycott-by others. For an effective boycott of a whiskey by teetotaling Quakers was a bit of a problem. Mr. Lovell's solution: to circularize...
Relief. A greater tale of woe was brought back from Spain to the U. S. last week by Alfred Cope, regional director in southeastern Spain of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker relief organization. Mr. Cope believed that some 500,000 Loyalist supporters were in concentration camps; he thought that at least 70,000 Italian troops remained in Spain, despite stories of withdrawals; he told one story of 20,000 Loyalist troops imprisoned in a bullring in Ciudad Real for 20 days with little food and not much water...
Progressive educators rate Quaker, co-educational Swarthmore as the No. 1 U. S. college, Frank Aydelotte as the ablest U. S. college president. Little Swarthmore aspires to cultivate its students' emotions and morals as well as their minds, is a good all around institution. Aydelotte, 58, a onetime Rhodes scholar, golfs in the low 80s, is a whiz at money raising, loved by his students, a good all around...