Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week in a modest Manhattan office at No. 31 Nassau St. subscription books were opened for a $180,000,000 bond issue. By the afternoon of the next day the issue was sold, the books closed. With the same absence of fanfare, Charles R. Dunn, fiscal agent for the twelve Federal Land Banks, disposed of a $100,000,000 issue last December, one of $239,000,000 last June, another of $162,000,000 a year ago. Last week's offering brought the total of Federal Land Bank financing for the past twelve months...
Representative Dunn described how Everett Parker, a fellow War veteran, came to his office last January to ask for food for his family, how he had gone to the Parker home at 311 D St., only four blocks from the Capitol. There Representative Dunn found "this little woman and her babies sleeping in two smutty three-quarter beds in one little room where there were no sanitary facilities; no running water, all huddled there together." Of Father Parker, who has an impediment in his speech and a hernia which prevents him from doing any heavy work, Representative Dunn declared: "This...
Representative Dunn had tried to get work or relief for the poor Parkers. The District authorities, said the Congressman, had told Parker to go back to Tennessee. When it was discovered that "this little woman was about to become a mother again," Father Parker was turned away by the Public Health Service when he asked to have his wife taken to a hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that...
When Representative Dunn paused, Rev. Henry Elbert Stubbs, Representative from Santa Barbara, Calif., leaped to his feet. "This may not be strictly in order," he declared, "but if there are 100 Congressmen here who feel as I do, I would like them to stand with me each to give $1 to this family...
Parson Stubbs had passed the hat before Speaker Byrns mustered up sufficient hardheartedness to point out that it was strictly against the House rules to take up a collection on the floor. By that time, though, Representative Dunn had $44 for the Parkers, had dealt a solid rebuke to Washington's local relief authorities...