The 1923 NBC Meeting (Atlantic City, New Jersey)

I.    The 1923 NBC Meeting (Atlantic City, New Jersey)

A.    The keynote speaker for the NBC gathering in Atlantic City (May 23-29, 1923) was W. H.P. Faunce (1859-1930), modernist president of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Newspapers across the nation described Straton standing on a chair at the front of the hall protesting before the three thousand present that the convention should not allow Faunce to speak.

B.    With loud jeering and hissing, the angry crowd drowned out the Fundamentalist’s voice, and when Faunce came to the platform to deliver his message on "Thy Kingdom Come," the cheers and applause lasted for several minutes.