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Last week UNRRA was busy fulfilling its half of the bargain. As 100 more Dunker volunteers set sail for Europe, six fat Dunker Brown Swiss bulls were safe in Greece, 150 Dunker heifers awaited passage to Poland. Said pleased Pacifist Bushong: "Perhaps shootin' isn't the only way out of this world mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: UNRRA & the Dunkers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Into the breach stepped brisk, friendly Benjamin G. Bushong, dairy farmer, cemetery owner, and chief red-tape cutter of the 226-year-old pacifist Church of the Brethren ("Dunkers" - because they practice baptism by total immersion). For months Dunker Bushong had been pushing his church's own overseas relief program (TIME, July 24, 1944), only to strike a snag. City Dunkers had raised money for calves and feed. Country Dunkers had fed and fattened the animals into fine bulls and heifers. The Dunkers had the cattle but they had no ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: UNRRA & the Dunkers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...Dunker Bushong made a suggestion: if UNRRA would provide shipping space for Dunker cows and bulls, the Brethren would rustle up seagoing hustlers to herd the UNRRAnimals. UNRRA was delighted and agreed to pay volunteers $75 monthly expenses, token salaries of i? daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: UNRRA & the Dunkers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Dollars for Doughnuts | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Edward H. Bennett '37, Charles C. Buell '23, James A. Burgess '04, J. Fletcher Chace '38, Frederic C. Church '20, Forrester A. Clark '38, John R. Clark '38, Laurence Curtis '16, Roger W. Cutler '11, John H. Dean '34, F. Stanton Deland '36, Charles Devens '32, Henry T. Dunker '25, Samuel M. Felton, 3rd '13, W. Cameron Forbes '92, George S. Ford '37, James J. Gaffney '37, William F. Garcelon '95, G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, Robert H. Hallowell '96, Huntington R. Hardwick '15, S. Trafford Hicks, Jr. '38, Charles G. Hutter, Jr. '38, Delmar Leighton '19, T.. Ferguson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT WILL HEAD CARD AT VARSITY CLUB ANNUAL FETE FRIDAY | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

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