Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold-rimmed spectacles?President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...cinema service, performed by Presbyterian leaders (TIME, Jan. 26). For commercial purposes last week RCA Photophone Inc. dangled enticing names before U. S. congregations, releasing a nonsectarian. 25-min. evening church service. To a Manhattan studio preview went local churchmen, there to see & hear: Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling, famed Dry crusader, kinetic leader of U. S. youth, editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald; Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton's First Presbyterian Church and Princeton Theological Seminary; Baritone Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, whose imposing manner and cheery hymns used to be a prime feature of Billy Sunday...
There are two exhibitions now to be seen at the Fogg Art Museum which are of considerable importance. One of these, an exhibition of drawings from the collection of Dan Fellows Platt, loaned to the College Art Association, will be on display at the Museum through December 12; the other exhibition, a collection of Japanese prints, tempre paintings, and pottery, will be shown throughout the month of December...
...broken, the radiator filled with mud, the windows smashed, the tires slit with pitchforks. He refused to get out of the car, was pushed in it to Wilton Junction. From there he scurried to Iowa City and soon had his appeal for aid telephoned to Governor Dan Turner in Washington...
Promoter of Tipperary's All-Ireland Champions is Dan Breen, famed leader of Sinn Fein riots from 1919 to 1923, onetime Commandant General of the Third Tipperary Brigade in the Irish Republican Army, before that a famed Tipperary hurler...