Word: buchmanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine whose chief problem was the prospect of having too much money, it would seem impossible to do so ten years later. Surprise of the third edition of Holiday is that it surmounts this apparent handicap without trying and emerges, thanks to Screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman, Director George Cukor and a cast brilliantly headed by Katharine Hepburn, as superior to both its high-grade predecessors...
...prime talking point of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's Oxford Group has been that it works equally well in the framework of any Christian church-not excluding the Roman Catholic. Sympathetic accounts of the Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic...
Pope Pius XI once referred to God as the "Principal Newsmaker," but few churchmen conceive of the Deity as a Great Editor. In England, however, a number of members of the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman last summer enlisted God's aid in a journalistic venture. In their "quiet times" every morning they took pencil & paper, jotted down what they believed to be divine instructions on problems of makeup, caption-writing and layout for a one-shot picture magazine to be called Rising Tide. The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies...
...more that of an illustrated religious tract. In 48 fast moving pages of striking photos and photomontages, it shows the reader a world where "human wisdom has failed . . . but God has a plan." Page after page of pictures, exhibiting exuberant Oxford Group grins, illustrate how "one man" (Dr. Buchman) brought God's plan to Oxford in 1921, how his disciples spread it in Canada, the Scandinavian nations, Switzerland, The Netherlands...
...donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about God by Christmas...