Word: macfarland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question is "Resolved, That all collective bargaining be done through non-company unions, protected by law." The Harvard speakers, Powers McLean '35 and A. Gilman Sullivan '36 will uphold the affirmative. The Stanford debaters, nearing the end of their first Eastern trip are John P. MacFarland and Robert A. Grantier...
Then Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland resigned from the Federal Council, after admitting that he had been paid by Tsar Hays to lecture on and recommend cinemas. Similar cases followed. Mrs. Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman...
...other half of Dr. Macfarland's radio work was chairmanship of the Committee on Religious Activities of N. B. C.'s potent Advisory Council. Judge Morgan Joseph O'Brien of Manhattan is Catholicism's representative in that committee. Julius Rosenwald, now in Europe, is Judaism's representative. Dr. Macfarland was Protestantism's. Last week Dr. Macfarland and Judge O'Brien were seeking a new Protestant member...
...resignation on Jan. 1 of Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland as general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America incidentally emptied another major job he filled in U. S. Protestantism ? supervision of Protestant broadcasting Co.'s two chains. Last week the Federal Council half filled the radio job by appointing Dr. John William Langdale, 56, chairman of its radio commission. It is to this commission that Protestant ministers who want to talk over N. B. C.'s national radio hook-up must apply. Dr. Langdale is book editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He lives...