Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victory. The home nine expects to have little trouble in keeping the light-hitting Crimson outfit from scoring, and is confident that such swatters as Fields and Tremper, in spite of Harvard's recent shut-outs, will be able to drive enough runs across the platter to assure the Quaker lads the first game of the series...
...summary of the diversified activities which have caused him to be regarded with international suspicion: 1) Entered an English Presbyterian theological college, after announcing his conversion from Judaism to Christianity; 2) Became a Presbyterian clergyman; 3) Secretary to B. Seebohm Rowntree, the millionaire Quaker cocoa manufacturer; 4) Liberal M. P. cartooned by Punch for speaking broken English mixed with Hungarian in Parliament; 5) Wartime mail censor in the British Postoffice Department; 6) Employed by Herr Steinhauer of the German Secret Service while still receiving British pay; 7) Imprisoned at Brooklyn, N. Y., pending extradition to England, where he was sentenced...
...Willys Overland 896,887 + 37,037 Palmolive 895,489 + 37,047 Victor Talking Ma chine Co 864,200 -320,110 Armstrong Cork Co.... 801,700 +378,000 Vacuum Oil 800,100 + 48,100 Dodge Bros 784,078 +142,478 Chevrolet 779,032 +226,967 Pepsodent 750,656 +189,355 Quaker Oats 744,517 +211,937 Swift & Co 710,650 + 53,300 General Electric 695,385 +133,245 Hudson Motor 683,370 +296,100 Pond's Extract 674,530 +229,430 Heinz, H. J. Co 673,304 +145,334 American Tobacco .... 662,845 +364,154 Cudahy Packing...
...successor of the old Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co.; owner of the Battle Creek Toasted Flake Co. of London, Ont.; builder in 1924 of a $400,000 plant in Battle Creek; owner of plants in London, Ont., and Sydney, Australia; recent buyer of a plant of the Quaker Oats Co. and another of the Purity Oats Co.; owner of interests in the Kellogg Co. of Great Britain. And he has an estate, out in California, near Pomona, where among other activities he breeds Arabian horses. Last week he was reported about to send an expedition to Arabia to bring back...
...really ought to put it all down in a book." This remark never failed to please him because he knew that it was true. Now he has acted upon it.* He has told what he remembers of Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what is a concubine?" "Thee stay in at recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James...