Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princess Setsuko was a bright student at a Quaker school in Washington. Often she sped in her automobile on Washington's broad avenues. She played tennis or swam at exclusive country clubs. Often she dances. She likes jazz...
Resentment and alarm at undercover anti-Catholic tactics-William B. Tubby of Greenwich, Conn., Quaker and longtime Republican. Similarly, President H. R. Fitzgerald of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Dry Democrat, longtime friend of Nominee Hoover...
...have also given deep consideration to the other items mentioned: (a) Am I a British subject? Did I ever apply for such citizenship? No. Many generations of persecuted Quaker ancestors would rise in their graves at such a discovery. ... (b) Did I ever rent a "residence" abroad? I plead guilty of this crime and in mitigation I do appeal to the feelings of fathers who object to hotel life for babies and children. ... (d) I plead guilty to the criminal charge of pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this...
...this not the same calibre of man that inspired his Quaker fathers to build their monuments...
...TIME of July 16, a correspondent from Ohio says: "I wonder if Hoover has always held to the teachings of his Quaker fathers during all these years with the British...