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...attendant of Riverside Church in New York City, of which my wife is a member and as an ardent admirer of its minister, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, I was startled and amused to have her point out his picture to me on p. 69 of the Sept. 6 issue of TIME over the subtitle "Rockefeller Foundation's Fosdick, Money for brains, money for balloons, money for broadcasting." . . . Inasmuch as you have already inadvertently brought Harry Emerson Fosdick along with Raymond Elaine Fosdick onto the pages of your excellent magazine, I cannot resist telling you something about the father...
These facts & figures were set forth last April in a president's review by the Foundation's able new President Raymond Elaine Fosdick. Last week this review was included in a full annual report, detailing all the ultimate capillary destinations of the flow of gold which last year poured from the heart of the Rockefeller philanthropic empire in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center-much but by no means all of it under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees. The following is a sample- very far short...
Raymond Elaine Fosdick was elected president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the allied Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board two winters ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), took active charge in July of last year, replacing two retiring presidents, Trevor Arnett and Max Mason. For a quarter-century before that Fosdick had been active in Rockefeller philanthropy. War worker, peace advocate, internationalist, social science promoter, he was first if not foremost a lawyer-the sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor...
Five years ago Mr. Fosdick's first wife shot herself and their two children to death. Last year he remarried. In the summer he lives on a Connecticut farm, leases his fields to farmer neighbors for haying. He travels frequently, last week arrived in France to visit the Foundation's Paris office, make a quick stop in London before returning to the U. S. His first year as the Foundation's president saw no sensational shifts of Rockefeller procedure but a continuation and broadening of traditional policy. His administration was proving quite satisfactory to his trustees...
Union's faculty, all but one of whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps...