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When the sense of the two Yearly Meetings, Orthodox and Hicksite, had been taken by their respective clerks, these two largest U. S. Quaker societies (91,326 and 16,105 members) were well on the way toward healing a schism, that had parted them for 108 years...
Others of "The Eight" may have been better artists but none, including the late, lusty George Luks, had a more adventurous life than Everett Shinn. A fat little Quaker boy in Woodstown, N. J., he was known as "Pud" (pudding) to his contemporaries. Now 58, "Pud" Shinn is as wiry as a fox terrier, is better known...
...James Ramsay MacDonald would be cheered and heartened by the dynamic young Frenchman. The last time Flandin and MacDonald made a night of it in London (TIME, April 18, 1932) the Scot said afterward, "Conversation was free and easy-a sort of smoker which was in no sense a Quaker meeting!" That was apropos of the Danube Conference, which flopped and fizzled. This week the great questions between France and Britain...
...nation. In the Episcopal Cathedral Bishop Herman Page holds forth ably. Methodist residents of what they call the "Fourth City" know that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
...Blue defense with any regularity, and he was held to six points. The Harvard team seemed slow and unsure in comparison to their stronger rivals. Captain Boys, who started at guard, was again sent out on fouls, and even Long Bill Gray was rendered ineffectual by the close Quaker guarding...