Word: fosdick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to demolish the attempts of the "National Council Against Conscription" (which incidentally includes on its Board such men as Harry Emerson Fosdick, William Faulkner, Albert Einstein, the late Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Louis Bromfield, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr.), your editorial does not show us one positive contribution of UMS. As The Christian Century has pointed out, UMS would reduce both the size and the effectiveness of the army; thus even General MacArthur has advised against passing a UMT measure under the stress of the "emergency" situation today...
...ever seen. Eventually the foundation took charge of almost all his giving, and spent nearly half a billion dollars "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." In its first official history (The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation; Harper; $4.50), published this week, former President Raymond B. Fosdick tells what all the money has done...
...20th century, says Author Fosdick, there are some bitter disappointments connected with running a foundation. "One thinks ... of the promising research projects that were disrupted [by war] ... of the assembly of the finest mathematical faculty in the world at Göttingen which was scattered by Hitler's terrorism, of the health institute in Tokyo which became a military headquarters, of a physics institute in Madrid standing isolated and unused . . ." But over the years, the foundation has had much to compensate for such setbacks. It has been such a vast catalyst to achievement that even old John...
...There are still thousands of dedicated ministers, ranging from Liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick to Evangelist Billy Graham, who have been making a worthwhile impact upon the life and thought of America...
...cigar is lawng, and the face is strawng But Fosdick's is lawnger, and Li'l Abner...