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Fifteen years ago, at the age of 35, Author Strong arrived in Russia with the Quaker relief unit. Long a social reformer, this large, white-haired energetic woman remained to help build up the new regime, give it publicity, organize various cultural enterprises, of which the Moscow Daily News has prospered most markedly. In 1932 she surprised friends on both sides of the Atlantic by marrying a gentle little Soviet agricultural expert...
...history of Johns Hopkins is a history, of great men. Its first was that Godfearing, champagne-loving moneygrubber, Johns Hopkins. His namesake University would give much this week to find another like him. Son of a Maryland tobacco planter whose Quaker precepts made him free his slaves and put his sons to work, Johns Hopkins got no schooling after he was 12. He started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love...
...Conference made ready to launch an ambitious two-year Emergency Peace Campaign. In its first year the campaign plans to spend between $500,000 and $1,000,000, of which it has raised $150,000. Acting as treasurer of the campaign is the American Friends Service Committee, that fortunate Quaker board to which Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt has given the $90,000 proceeds of her radio talks. Mrs. Roosevelt will help the campaign when it opens on April 21 by joining in a radio program with its star speaker, stubble-cheeked old George Lansbury, British Laborite, who will tour...
...arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker, Ezra Cornell...
...Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...