Word: loudon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like other Buchmanite books. For Sinners Only calls many a good Buchmanite by name, often by nickname. Some noted Buchmanites mentioned: Princeton's Professor Philip Marshall Brown. Manhattan's Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker Jr., William Gilliland ("Bill Pickle"), onetime bootlegger to Penn State, Eton's Loudon Hamilton, Oxford's Canon Grensted. Author Russell naturally fails to mention such onetime Buchmanites as Princeton's Wilhelmus Bryan, Salem's Cornelius Trowbridge and Oxford's Murray Webb Peploe...
...name of the group which met last week in Geneva for the seventh time is The League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Once upon a time what they sought was "disarmament," but last week Dutch Chairman Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon opened the session with these words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation...