Word: bromley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnarn and Lawyer John Foster Dulles, speaking for the Federal Council of Churches: "If we, a professedly Christian nation, feel morally free to use atomic energy in that way, men elsewhere will accept that verdict . . . the stage will be set for the sudden and final destruction of mankind...
...laymen assembled in Cleveland liked everything about the Dumbarton Oaks plan as it now stands. They had some grave objections, but they decided that since Dumbarton Oaks is all there is, better something than nothing. Said the president of the Federal Council, New York's Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam...
...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...Bishops who are aggressively outspoken friends of labor can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Outstanding are Chicago's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bish op Bernard James Sheil, San Francisco's retired Episcopal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, Boston's Methodist Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam...
...Pillars") for a "just and durable peace." Now, this late in the war, churchmen had grave doubts whether such a peace was in prospect. These doubts were solemnly stated to the President last week by: the ranking Episcopal bishop, Henry St. George Tucker; a prominent Methodist, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; and John Foster Dulles, international lawyer. After 40 minutes facing