Word: niehbuhr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preacher." Author Lewis settled in Kansas City where "Bill" Stidger was preaching, got him and other local ministers to help him with Elmer Gantry. But Dr. Stidger "most certainly did not have in mind the kind of a preacher book that Lewis wrote." ¶ Tall, highbrowed, pink-cheeked Reinhold Niehbuhr, Socialist, is "the most popular speaker among college groups on the American platform today." Editor of World Tomorrow, he teaches at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Unlike that other preacher-to-the-young, Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling (whom Author Jones does not include among his chosen 32), Niehbuhr...
Among the representatives that will attend this year's conference are Richard Roberts of Toronto, Reinhold Niehbuhr, of the Union Seminary. New York, Raymond Calkins '90, of Cambridge, and G. Sherwood Eddy, of New York. The program scheduled provides for two platform addresses daily, one in the morning, and one in the evening on Round Top at sunset. The morning series will attempt to appraise certain central tendencies in contemporary life, and point out the place of the student in relation to them...
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