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...signers of this letter: Jesse Herman Holmes, Quaker, Professor of the History of Religion and Philosophy (Swarthmore); Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School; Joseph Russell Smith, Professor of Economic Geography (Columbia); Thomas Atkinson Jenkins, Professor of the History of the French Language (University of Chicago); Albert Taylor Mills, Professor of History and Political Science (James Millikin University), Decatur...
...finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., Harry B. Gear of Commonwealth Edison Co., Charles Revell Holden of the Union Trust Co., Robert L. Scott of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (department store), Albert W. Sherer of Lord & Thomas and Logan (advertising agents), John Stuart of Quaker Oats Co. (Chairman of Princeton's trustees...
Next day His Majesty held the third Privy Council at which he has presided since his convalescence began (TIME, Feb. 4). Later he gave private audience to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, heard all about the Naval Disarmament plans of "a dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister...
...National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...that "no man now living in America has exerted greater influence upon the course of medical education in this country, and hence indirectly upon the course of medical thought and practice" than has Dr. Welch. Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 on money bequeathed by Johns Hopkins (1794-1873), Quaker merchant of Baltimore. Hopkins left instructions for the development of first a hospital, then a medical school. The University's first president, Daniel Colt Oilman, went to Europe looking for a man who would be his first pathologist. European, savants told him to return to Manhattan and get William...