[Peace-discuss] Friday film @ Quaker.......

[Karen Medina]

Thanks for that Quaking history. I learned a bit.
 On Mar 10, 2015 6:39 PM, "E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss" <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>  The Quaker Oats company did at one time thing that it owned the
> exclusive right to the use of the word "Oats", such that
> when a competitor produced a new cereal product and
> wanted to call it "Cheery Oats", they
> got their "guns" and attorneys and money and
> saidin an unfriendly way that the cheer would
> hit the fan  unless they desisted from abusing the word
> Oatsin said manner.  Apparently the threat seemed credible
> and the lawsuit impending, a real and present danger, so
> the competitor changed the name to Cheerios in a fit of anguish
> and it has worked fairly well for them.
>
> The inventor of Purina Dog Chow, whose family name Corbin was identical to
> the
> name of the place where Kentucky Fried Chicken was invented left his
> hometown
> of Corbin, KY, and after a stint with Quaker Oats, departed there for St.
> Louis,
> where he eventually applied extrusion molding technologies to the
> production
> of pet foods.
>
> In the classic case of Jury Nullification, a young follower of archtypal
> Quaker George Fox, one William Penn, Jr.,
> who had been imprisoned previously for failing among other things to take
> oats of allegiance
> to the king and propriety, was freed from the charge of preaching in the
> street by a renegade jury
> that judged the law to be unjust.  But Penn went to prison for Contempt of
> Court, an dthe jury, too, without so much as
> a bowl of cereal to eat.
>
> On 03/11/2015 05:25 AM, Szoke, Ronald Duane via Peace-discuss wrote:
>
>
>  *WORLD WAR 1 ANTI-WAR FILM SERIES*
>
>  Urbana-Champaign Religious Society of Friends
>
>  Dalton Trumbo’s
>
>  *JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN*
>
>  Friday March 13
>  6:30 p.m.
>  Friends Meeting House
>  1904 East Main Street, Urbana
>
>  Please join us at the U-C Friends Meeting House for the second film of
> the World War 1 anti-war film series. The series is sponsored by the
> Friends’ Adult Education Committee. Chuck Cowger, who has a long time
> interest in anti-war films, and a collection of such films, will introduce
> the film and encourage discussion at its end.
>
>
> The remaining schedule for this film series includes the following dates
> and films. Each film will begin at 6:30 p.m. and take place at the Meeting
> house.  The series will continue with four more films in the fall.
>
> *              March 13* – Dalton Trumbo’s  *“Johnny Got His Gun.”*
>
>               *April 10*     -  Stanley Kubrick’s *“Paths of Glory.”*
>
>               *May 15*     -  Philippe De Broca’s  *“King of Hearts.”*
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:17 PM, bay2 at illinois.edu wrote:
>
>  Thank you Karen for building the contact.
>
> Ron, I remember you mentioning Johnny Gets a Gun would be screened in some
> place in Gregore Ave. I would appreciate if you let me know where exactly
> and when.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
> --
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> 星期二, 10 3月 2015, 03:33下午 -05:00 寄件人 Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>:
>
> Ron,
> Michael was asking about the film "Johnny Gets A Gun", could you please
> provide us the details, time and address, again?
> Thanking you in advance.
>
>
>
>
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