Word: mra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, Calif, four great searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell...
...Tonight you are going to witness the preview of a new world order." To anyone who had ever attended a Buchmanite meeting, the preview itself was not new, although as usual it featured some new names. M. G. M.'s Louis Burt Mayer spoke up for MRA-as Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays had done at a luncheon given by Mr. Mayer for the Buchmanites. Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed as praise for MRA; thereupon...
Last month in Manhattan, parsnip-nosed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman launched in the U. S. the latest campaign of his Oxford Groupers-Moral Re-Armament (TIME, May 22). Last week Dr. Buchman sought to sell MRA to the nation's Capital. To the Washington Star he sounded off in the copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed...
Four thousand sympathetic, plushy, perspiring people filled the hall, but did not overflow it. They heard and applauded MRA messages from bigwigs, MRA testimonials from Groupers. They gave their greatest applause to Grouper "Bunny'' Austin, British tennis star, and accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis...
...sponsors were active Buchmanites - ex-Congressman Fred Albert Britten, Washington Columnist George Gould Lincoln, onetime Assistant Attorney General Harry Wallace Blair. A number of other sponsors were devout men who were well aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program...