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...subsidiaries are six munitions firms, claims that less than 1% of its profits are from munitions. Venerable Chairman Sir John began to frown when Communist Pollitt reeled off the names of holders of I. C. I. stock as "an indictment of the Capitalist class as a whole." Outstanding names: Quaker Cocoamaker Barrow Cadbury (30,875), Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (833 preference, 5,414 ordinary) and the Right Rev. Edward Thomas Scott Reid, Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (?2,100 in ordinary and preference shares). Sir John knew what was coming and finally it came, that...
...Haven Clock to little fellows like Protection Products, Toy Tinkers, O-Pan-Top Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer to the thingumabob business, Scrambled Eggs, Inc. took its name from its first product, an egg-shaped puzzle...
Johns Hopkins' father, a Quaker tobacco grower, freed his slaves in 1807, made his sons stop school and go to work on the family's Virginia plantation. At 24, young Hopkins went into business for himself. The first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries and farm products, mostly in exchange for whiskey. Turning around, he sold the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." For that commerce Quakers expelled him from their meeting but later took him back. He fell in love with a cousin. But her father, fearing effects of consanguinity, forbade the marriage. Neither...
Grant Wood was born in 1892 in Anamosa, Iowa, site of Iowa's best known Reformatory. His family was rigidly Quaker. His first studio was a hiding place under the red checkered table cloth of the oval dining-room table. In 1907. when he was 15, Grant Wood made a little water color of a spray of green currants of which he is extremely proud. It was painted in what he now realizes is his natural style, hard, exact, brittle. The currants were on view last week together with a number of pictures from the pink-whisker period...
Hicksite Friends came into being when Elias Hicks, a Long Island farmer and itinerant preacher, presumed to dabble in Unitarianism, question the divinity of Christ. He was ousted from the Society of Friends, founded one of his own, gave his name to Hicksville, L. I. which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney...