Word: oxnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "A master among astronomers ... he has explored the 'star-sown voids of space' the confines of the mind and the reaches of the spirit." G. Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church...
Speaking to some 6,000 Methodist women in Milwaukee, outspoken Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam let fly at "self-appointed patriots . . . pagan commentators . . . ignoramuses on investigating committees." Said he: "We don't intend to give up such words as 'peace, justice and brotherhood' " just because the Commies have appropriated them. "Little men whose mentality is . . . akin to the Nazi Gauleiter and the Russian commissar . . . think they are hearing something subversive when Christians speak...
...California's Sixteenth District (west Los Angeles County), Republican Representative Donald Lester Jackson faces trouble. A member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, Jackson last year said that Washington's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam "has been to the Communist front what Man o' War was to thoroughbred horse racing [serving] God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week ..." Recalling that comment, the Rev. S. (for nothing) Mark Hogue, minister of the Westwood Hills Congregational Church, announced that he is going after the Democratic nomination for Jackson's seat. Said Candidate...
Methodist Bishop of the Washington area G. Bromley Oxnam will deliver tomorrow morning's sermon at Memorial Church. Services begin...
...Oxnam was a storm center in the recent controversy over alleged Communism in the Protestant ministry. He made a dramatic appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Representative Harold Velde (R-Ill.) and submitted to eight hours of questioning on what Velde termed "Communist infiltration" in the ministry...