Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alternate slate for Board of Directors fell short in their bid to attract a quorum to the annual meeting, the Coop directors heard and took to heart the ideas generated by their opposition. Besides being concerned with the Coop's internal policies, the alternate slate, organized by Wesley E. Profit '69 and Steven P. Roose '70, was interested in improving the Coop's relationship with the larger community of Cambridge and Boston. No one had ever really confronted the Coop like this before. Moreover, the fact that a thousand members turned out for the annual meeting proved to management that...
...vessel challenged U.S. tuna boats working within the 200-mile limit that Peru claims as territorial water. On earlier occasions, tuna men were released after buying fishing licenses. This time the Peruvians pumped more than sixty shots into one trawler. After U.S. officials inspected the porous hull, Ambassador John Wesley Jones submitted a $50,000 damage bill to Peru. Unless the I.P.C. situation improves, U.S.-Peruvian relations will come to a bitter climax in April when President Nixon is forced by the Hickenlooper Amendment to revoke $79 million in aid and preferential sugar purchases from Peru...
...dissenters are John and Charles Wesley (March 3), the 18th century founders of Methodism, George Fox (Jan. 13), the 17th century founder of the Society of Friends, and John Bunyan (Aug. 31), the Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without...
...John Wesley Harding -- Bob Dylan...
...recipients are Alexander Keyssar, Frances Pritchett, Wesley E. Profit, and Charles F. Sabel, according to Eugene Kinasewich '64, assistant dean of the College. They were selected from among 40 applicants by a board composed of members of the Harvard Faculty and friends of the Rockefeller family...