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...Cambridge dean, a League of Nations secretary, a big game hunter, an archdeacon, a vice admiral, an Episcopal bishop's son, an Anglican bishop's sister, numerous Oxonians and Hon. Carl Vrooman of Bloomington, 111. To newshawks last week Frank Buchman declared: "Not one of us is employed. Yet we have managed to come across. I have not received a salary since 1922, but I manage somehow to live out of my seven suitcases. ... I haven't any idea of where all the money comes from...
...frequent criticism of brisk Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...
...Manhattan after a European trip Russell Allen Firestone, second son of Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone and member of Frank N. D. Buchman's First Century Christian Fellowship, was asked by a newshawk: "How can there be unselfishness in business under the capitalistic system?" Russell Allen Firestone replied: "Well, I feel that the real harm from capitalism, as it affects labor, has come from anonymous capital and not the widely-known capitalists. For example, men like my father, John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford believe in aiding those who work for them. They live for service and really are altruistic...
Please correct the statement that was published in your magazine (Jan. 23) concerning my connection with the Buchman Group. I am enclosing the correction that was published in the New York...
...Founders of the original Oxford Movement (Rome-ward), which many a higher-churchman than Dr. Macartney furiously resents confusing -especially since its centenary is to be celebrated next summer-with Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's stylish evangelistics...