Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Buchman, then 43, set to work without delay to "change" man No. 2.* As yet no whole nation has followed suit. But last week, Buchmanites all over the world celebrated their founder's 70th birthday. Frank Buchman himself attended the biggest party of all, which filled Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl with 10,000 of the "changed" and the curious...
...International Family." The party was part of a fortnight-long World Assembly of Frank Buchman's ten-year-old Moral Re-Armament movement, and it clicked smoothly along in the well-oiled M.R.A. manner. Statesmen and ex-statesmen from 25 nations (including Italy, Germany and Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy...
...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...
...confused with Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Group-a prestigious misnomer...
...Moral Rearmament" is entering a heyday. The personalistic revival movement which started under Frank Buchman as the Oxford Group after the first World War and took hold in the United States most successfully in the late Thirties now bids for big stakes, proclaiming that it offers "the answering ideology to Communism." Last Monday and Tuesday nights' overflow crowds of fashionable gentry at the Colonial Theatre watched Boston's free-of-charge performances of "The Good Road," MRA's touring propaganda spokesman in musical revue guise...