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...both cases, the ladies were acting as "grass roots" members of an oddly named new organization called IGHUGS. The movement had its start a year ago when a group of Quaker Oats Co. officials* started an organization entitled IGHAT (I'm Gonna Holler About Taxes), mostly to acquaint workers in its 22 plants with the high cost of Government. A fortnight ago, IGHAT's originators and new confederates from other corporations unveiled IGHUGS (I'm Gonna Howl 'bout Unneccessary Government Spending) as a successor to the original movement...
IGHUGS, said the spokesmen gathered in the plush, paneled Chicago directors' room of the International Harvester Co., is already backed by the American Medical Association, Avco Manufacturing Corp., General Electric and Sears, Roebuck as well as Quaker Oats, International Harvester and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. U.S. farm organizations have been invited into the act, although thus far with little reaction. By spring, if the hopes of IGHUG's high command come to fruition, 15,000 women's clubs will be dramatizing the words of Founder John McCaffrey, president of International Harvester: "Government, like...
...including Donold Lourie, Quaker Oats president until shortly before then, and now Under Secretary of State; R. Douglas Stuart, then vice chairman, and now Ambassador to Canada; or Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother, who was then a director...
...renew our faith and our commitment to God." In the next half-hour, half a dozen notables rose to their feet. Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley, a Lutheran, read from the First Psalm ("Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly . . ."). Vice President Nixon, a Quaker, read from the 15th chapter of John ("This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism to show the world that this whole business...
...Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...