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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenets of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty." Nevertheless, followers of Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman have always turned up their noses at the name "Buchmanite," much prefer to be called the Oxford Group-a designation which suggests that Buchmanism is somehow connected with Oxford University, or at least related to the Oxford Movement of a century ago. Until lately, however, none of the Group's critics was able to do anything about this flourishing misrepresentation. Then Dr. Buchman himself stuck his neck out of his well-tailored shell. In London he applied to the Board of Trade for incorporation...
Last week the critics jumped for his neck as one man. The Oxford Union passed a resolution condemning Dr. Buchman's proposal. In the House of Commons the Member for Oxford University, Humorist A. P. Herbert, urged the Government to deny incorporation under that name, since the "natural inference" that the Group is related to the University "is not justified by the facts." Finally, without making it public, the University's governing body lodged a protest with the Board of Trade-which announced that all the protests were being considered. Dr. Buchman drew his neck in again, said...
Graduated from Yale, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, in 1909, Moses received his Master's degree from Oxford two years later and wrote his doctoral dissertation in political science at Columbia...
...recipients will have their choice of studying at either Oxford or Cambridge University in England, on any subject they may choose. The fund was created in 1931 by the will of the late Lady Julia Henry for the purpose of "cementing bonds of friendship between the United States and England...
Shortly before Christmas, Wal sent several hundred unemployed out into London's Oxford Circus to dramatize their appeals for employment on public works and an increase in winter relief allowances. Suddenly tossing themselves on the ground like so many Holy Rollers, they tangled traffic into an unholy mess. Two days later he sent some of his roughest members into one of London's smoothest spots, the Ritz. He almost got a coffined umbrella labeled HE DID NOT GET WINTER RELIEF into No. 10 Downing Street...