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...Council's (that is, N. B. C.'s) Sunday preachers were Dr. James Stanley Durkee of Brooklyn, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman and Dr. Charles Leroy Goodell of Manhattan. This winter they have been Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling of Manhattan, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of Manhattan. Their selection depended largely on their nearness to the main broadcasting office in Manhattan. Besides them, 286 other Protestants have taken part?occasional Sundays, at morning devotional periods, at "hymn-sing" Thursday evenings, during Lent and at Thanksgiving. They represented all major Protestant denominations and all parts...
...National Vespers; Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; N.B.C.; 28 stations...
Prominently mentioned last week as possible Princeton presidents were Lawyer Raymond Blaine Fosdick of Manhattan (brother of Harry Emerson) and Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury Walter Ewing Hope...
...This Silly Optimism." From his riverside Church pulpit in Manhattan, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached: "Individualism in the modern world is insanity. Optimism is a dangerous lie. If our businessmen were only realists, if they ceased this silly optimism, then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present...
TIME erred. Dr. Fosdick's father's father was onetime Superintendent of Schools in Buffalo...