Moral Re-armament Records 1812-1991 (bulk 1873-1966)

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Moral Re-armament Records 1812-1991 (bulk 1873-1966)

Worldwide movement dedicated to spiritual and ethical reawakening. Correspondence, subject files, financial records, play and film scripts, radio and television broadcasting files, press releases, clippings, print and near-print material, scrapbooks, and other records documenting the policies, organization, programs, activities, and membership of Moral Re-armament. Includes papers of the organization's founder, Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, and members Ray Foote Purdy and Kenaston Twitchell.

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Twitchell, Kenaston.

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Oxford Group.

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Menzies, Ivan, 1896-

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Elsie Griffin was born on December 6, 1895 in Bristol. She made her stage debut during World War I with Lena Ashwell's Company, formed at the request of King George V to entertain Britain's troops in France. The lyricist Fred E. Weatherby, impressed by her voice, brought her his song, "Danny Boy". Her singing resulted in one of the most popular hits of the era. Griffin joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1919, immediately appearing on tour as Josephine in H.M.S. Pin...

Ely, Albert H. (Albert Heman), 1894-1964

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Albert Heman Ely, Jr. was born May 21, 1894, in New York City. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1915 and an L.L.B. and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1917. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1917 to 1919, before practicing law for a variety of firms in New York City from 1919 to 1935. In 1930, Ely and his wife, Constance Jennings Ely, met Frank Buchman, the leader of the Oxford Group, which came to be known as Moral Re-armament (MRA). The Elys became leaders in the mov...

Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961

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Psychoanalyst and author. From the description of Letter, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149490 Psychologist and psychiatrist. From the description of C.G. Jung papers, 1909-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983585 Epithet: Professor psychologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000da Swiss psychoanalyst. From the description of C.G. Ju...

Hofmeyr, Bremer

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Twitchell, Kenaston. Kenaston Twitchell papers.

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Wiley, Alexander, 1884-1967

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United States senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Alexander Wiley : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727713 Alexander Wiley (b. May 26, 1884, Chippewa Falls, Wis.-d. May 26, 1967, Germantown, Pa.), U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin law school. After serving as district attorney of Chippewa County, Wisconsin, he was engaged in non-political pursuits until elected as a ...

West, George Algernon, 1893-1980

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Epithet: Rt. Reverend Bishop of Rangoon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x0003ba Epithet: Bishop of Rangoon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x00009d ...

Howard, Peter, 1908-1965

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Cornell, Douglas

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Purdy, Ray Foote

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Moral Re-armament (Organization)

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Worldwide movement dedicated to spiritual and ethical reawakening. From the description of Records of the Moral Re-armament, 1812-1991 (bulk 1873-1966). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131695 Biographical Notes and Organizational History Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman 1878, June 4 Born, Pennsburg, Pa. ...

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 1880-1962

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Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938

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Accession date: 1914 Places: Rumania Title: Queen Consort of Ferdinand I of Romania British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000387.0x0003cb ...

Edison, Mina Miller, 1865-1947

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Riffe, John, 1904-1958

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Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964

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Hermann Hagedorn was born in New York City in 1882 and educated at Harvard University, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911 he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Hagedorn died in Santa Barbara, California in 1964. From the guide to the Hermann Hagedorn papers, 1898-1970, (Beinecke Rare Book and M...

Gandhi, Rajmohan.

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Thant, U, 1909-1974

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Smith, H. Alexander (Howard Alexander), 1880-1966

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Senator, lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Howard Alexander Smith : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725674 Howard Alexander Smith (b. Jan. 30, 1880, N.Y.C.-d. Oct. 27, 1966, Princeton, N.J.), U.S. Senator from New Jersey, graduated from Princeton University and the Columbia University law school. After practicing law in Colorado he served in the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. He was execut...

Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

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Buchman, Frank, 1878-1961

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Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967

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Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876 in Cologne, Germany. He was chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963. He died in 1967. From the description of Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581751 Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-1963. From the description of Konrad Adenauer miscellaneous papers, 1953-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869086 Politician, statesman and C...

Magsaysay, Ramon, 1907-1957.

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Hicks, William Cleveland, 1900-1944

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Purdy, Frederick H.

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Purdy, Ray Foote, 1898-1965

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Shoemaker, Samuel M. (Samuel Moor), 1893-1963

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Episcoplian minister, author, speaker; born December 27, 1893; graduated from Princeton University, 1916; served as missionary in China with YMCA, 1916-1919; graduated from General and Union Seminaries, 1921; served at Calvary Episcopal Church in New York City, 1923-1952; awarded Doctorate of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary and Berkeley Divinity School, 1948; founded the Calvary Clergy School, ca. 1948; served at Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, 1952-1962; named by NEWSWEEK as o...

Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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Blake, Howard Carson, 1904-

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Schuman, Robert, 1886-1963

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Day, Sherwood E.

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Princeton theological seminary

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Roots, John McCook

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Purdy, Elsa Toennies

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Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989

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English poet and novelist. From the description of A Wish : autograph manuscript signed, of a sonnet, transcribed for presentation : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270741629 Daphne Du Maurier, author. From the description of The years between: screenplay, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122576253 ...

Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955

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John Raleigh Mott was born on May 25, 1865 in Livingston Manor, New York to John Stitt and Elmira Dodge Mott. John R. was the third of four children, having two older and one younger sister. The family soon moved to Postville, Iowa, where the elder Mott prospered as a retail lumber and hardware merchant and became mayor. In this conservative, ethnically diverse environment, young Mott grew to mid-adolescence in a home warmed by Methodist "holiness," which faith he confessed...

Haines, Charles Henry, 1851-

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Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973

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French philosopher, dramatist, and critic. From the description of Collection, 1898-1973 (bulk 1908-1964). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530511 Gabriel Marcel, generally regarded as the first French existential philosopher, was born in Paris in 1889 and died there in 1973. An only child in an upper-middle class family, Marcel early excelled in his studies and demonstrated an aptitude for ph...

Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951

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Publishing, radio executive; Kansas governor; U.S. senator from Kansas. Of Garnett, Topeka, Kan. From the description of Arthur Capper papers, 1853-1956 (bulk 1918-1948). (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 85600345 ...

Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975

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Chinese political and military leader; head of state, 1928-1949; president of Taiwan, 1949-1975. From the description of Chiang Kai-shek diaries, 1917-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872867 1909-1911 served in the Japanese army; 1911 founding member of the Kuomintang; 1913-1916 participated in revolution against Yuan Shikai; 1923 commandant of military academy at Whampoa; ?1925 commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army; 1927-1937 leader of th...

Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963

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