Word: bromley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless lack of snow prevents, the second annual Open Giant Slalom for the Louise Orvis Trophy will take place at Big Bromley at 10:30 a.m. Sunday...
This trophy is named in honor of Mrs. Louise Orvis, who first envisaged the possibilities for winter sports in the Bromley area around 1934. She was the first to keep any fun open in the winter time...
Grand Strategy. Had Amsterdam actually accomplished anything? Had the long, slow, painful struggle toward church unity been worth all the effort and all the talk? Christians around the globe applauded the words of one of Amsterdam's leaders, New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "The need for unity is urgent . . . Our disunity is a denial of our Lord . . . We cannot win the world for Christ with the tactics of guerrilla warfare . . . This calls for general staff, grand strategy, and army. And this means union...
...Garfield) Bromley Oxnam is a chunky, solid, strong-voiced prelate of 57. He looks and dresses like a prosperous businessman, but his leftish social views got him listed in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. Among the assets he brings to any enterprise are his organizing and administrative ability. He applies both to his personal life so formidably that there is never a paper left on his desk or a question left unanswered in any committee over which he presides. Says Theologian Niebuhr: "He gets through a meeting faster and better than anyone I know...
...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...