Word: oxnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue its traditional separation of church and state, we had better re-examine the ramifications of electing any more Methodists to high office, what with Oxnam et al. running around Washington like a medieval College of Cardinals selecting a new king...
...meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church was described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real concern...
This odd inquisition was set up by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 67, articulate firebrand of his church's liberal wing. Although the bishops talked with Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Christian Church), with Quaker-born (Presbyterian-attending) Richard Nixon, and Congregationalist (Methodist-attending) Hubert Humphrey, only Candidate Kennedy was quizzed on the church-and-state issues...
Stepping out of a Manhattan taxi, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, slammed the door shut, unwarily slammed the edge of his overcoat with it. When the cab pulled away, Oxnam was felled, his head striking the curb. Momentarily knocked unconscious, the bishop was taken to the hospital with a fractured left arm and facial cuts...
Some of the Methodist leaders wandered from the subject to such topics as segregation, anticlericalism and the growing religiosity of politicians. As usual, no one spoke more pungently than Methodism's old reliable baiter of capitalists. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington. He is no more afraid of "creeping socialism." said Oxnam, than of "stumbling capitalism." Though Oxnam said he holds no brief for collective ownership, "I must face the fact that there is something radically wrong with so-called 'free enterprise.' The truth is that there are services that can be rendered more effectively...