Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blurb on a leaflet distributed last week in Manhattan. The leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept...
...sportsmen's statement, and the Buchmanites' editing of Sportswriter Vidmer's comment, were egregious examples of an Oxford Group technique which has slowly matured during the years Dr. Buchman has been at work. For Buchmanites it has not been enough to propagate, among "key people," the doctrine of God's direct and special "guidance" of his favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly...
...Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters...
...London last month, Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman went into court to claim a legacy of ?500 left to the Oxford Group, of which he is founder (TIME, March 6). Last week the Hon. Mr. justice Sir Charles Alan Bennett ruled the legacy invalid. Grounds: lack of proof that the Group existed. Dr. Buchman's counsel, asked by the justice whether anything happened when one joined the Group, had replied: "No, I think it is as invisible as joining the Church of England...
Looking thoroughly existent, Dr. Buchman arrived last week in Manhattan, determined to sell Buchmanism under its newest name, "Moral Re-Armament," in the U. S. and Canada during the next three months. Dr. Buchman revealed that his Groupers had lately induced British milk dealers to place the initials M. R. A. upon 4,000,000 milk-bottle tops. Cried the founder: "I'm sure America will do as much. America will never lag behind in milk-bottle tops...