Word: buchananism
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Startled at first, then highly amused, Lord High Commissioner "P. G." made no reference to the incident, confined his remarks to recalling the happy coincidence that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Dr. Marshall Buchanan Lang, are brothers...
...Christ and Him Crucified." He was well aware that this and subsequent sermons would be worth exactly $77,296 to his new church, which had called him from Forest Park Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into R. G. Dun & Co. (now Dun & Bradstreet). Dr. Buchanan appointed three devout Presbyterians as watchdogs to see that his church should have the $77,296 only so long as its pastor adheres...
...must take the initiative himself. One-third of the cost (which is $81 for boys under 12, $121 for those over) the lad must earn himself. Another third he must wangle from his parents. After that he will have little trouble getting the final third from Mr. Buchanan...
Besides developing the resourcefulness which Mr. Buchanan likes to see in youngsters, that system has made the expedition virtually selfsupporting, since Mr. Buchanan's boys, when they grow up, make it a point to pay one-third of some other boy's expenses. It seems a business like sort of philanthropy to Mr. Buchanan, who prides himself on Scottish shrewdness, tells of his discovery that by eating late and taking advantage of the difference in time he can save one meal every summer on the return trip from Alaska to Detroit...
...only one quarter have the "On to Alaska with Buchanan" trips stirred complaint. Many of Mr. Buchanan's boys have sisters who pester him for permission to go along. Last week the pestering sisters jumped for joy at news that Mr. Buchanan had given in, would finance a supplementary girls' trip this year. But each girl must run enough errands, bake enough pies, darn enough socks or watch enough babies to pay her third of the expenses...