Word: mra
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Vigorously pursuing Moral Re-Armament on the West Coast, MRA's Leader Frank Buchman made his most striking conquest to date-the "changing" of curvesome Mae West. Witnesses: Miss...
Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...
Among the Buchmanite testifiers who told the Bowl meeting how MRA had helped them were two whose appearance was, to the Los Angeles Evening News, "almost painfully exquisite." They were a Chinese girl, a Japanese man who, after speaking their pieces, shook hands, stood silently smiling. The Bowl audience, predominantly middleclass, was equally pleased when Charles Copperman, boss of the Imperial Valley Teamsters' Union (A. F. of L.), vowed his friendship for G. G. Bennett, president of the Imperial Valley branch of the reactionary Associated Farmers...
Aside from the Teamsters' Union, California labor was not represented at the meeting. C. I. O. leaders believe that Mr. Copperman's Union, once aggressive, was taken into camp by MRA. And Californians recall how, five years ago, Buchmanites claimed they had "settled" the longshoremen's strike, "the first strike in history in which Christ was called upon to act as arbiter." That strike went on long after Buchmanites had been guided to urge the longshoremen to forget their troubles, go back to work...
From Hollywood, Dr. Buchman journeyed to Del Monte, opened a "World Assembly" for MRA, attended by 2,000 delegates from 25 nations. Said he: "We must possess some superior quality, a quality of living that rises above resentment, jealousy, greed and points of view, because all these may keep us from a maximum message. . . . We need the same characteristics that distinguish a great general-the plus of character, the plus that will change the world...