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...C.F.R.F. was organized under the aegis of General James G. Harbord, president of Radio Corp. of America, with Doctor S. Parkes Cadman, so-called and famed "National Radio Pastor," as chairman...
...Among other committee members: William H. Allen, Jane Addams, Senator William E. Borah, Bruce Barton, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Senator Carter Glass, William G. McAdoo, Rabbi Stephen S, Wise...
...Samuel Parkes Cadman had last week been president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America for four years and it was necessary that someone be elected to replace him. Accordingly, the delegates, convened last week in Rochester, N. Y., cast their votes and Bishop Francis J. McConnell, now of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church was discovered to have been made president...
Bishop McDonnell is the sixth president the Council has had since it was organized 20 years ago. Two of his predecessors like himself have been Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...
After this extraordinary valedictory, the delegates installed for Dr. Cadman the unique office of Radio Minister, carrying no salary, which he accepted. Then they proceeded to other business...