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Before performing that act and uttering the pledge that precedes it, Mr. Hoover will undoubtedly repair to the Friends Meeting House and silently dedicate himself in Quaker fashion...
...Hollywood version of Central Europe in June, 1914, this; no baseless fabrics of cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
...protesting against the sluggish formalism of the English churches, declared that every man must experience a personal revelation of God, an "Inward Light," which availed more than mere parroting of Scripture. After the organization of the first Quaker community in Lancashire, the movement spread rapidly through northern England and Wales...
...Herbert Clark Hoover was born a Quaker, his mother being zealous in the communities of Friends in Iowa. Mrs. Hoover was an Episcopalian, but adopted her husband's faith after their marriage. Hoover's reticence before the public was said to be due largely to his Quaker upbringing...
...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...