Word: mra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus read a blurb on a leaflet distributed last week in Manhattan. The leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept...
...sportsmen* signed a statement: "Moral Re-Armament is a battle for peace where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic, but it also is a mammoth undertaking. It must be universal...
...Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters MRA...