Word: dunned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assist in the laying on of hands when Boston's Very Rev. Angus Dun is consecrated Bishop of Washington at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul (April...
Pint-sized, grey-haired Arthur D. Whiteside, the 61-year-old President of credit raters Dun & Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...
...such a job that in 1939 "friends in Dun & Bradstreet" asked him to run Baltimore's 72-year-old and-limping C. D. Kenny Co., wholesale grocers. He soon controlled the company. In 1942 he bought into Chicago's Sprague, Warner Co., the Midwest's biggest wholesale grocer, and merged it with Kenny...
Wright, young Dun took an interest in religion, became an Episcopalian. He spent one year in parish work (St. Andrew's Church, Ayer, Mass.), then 23 years at the seminary of which he is now head...
...Episcopalians in the Washington diocese (the District of Columbia and four adjoining Maryland counties) will find Dun an accessible, sociable man, full of common sense. He is well-bred, well-read. His chief relaxation: going over his household and seminary accounts. "When I get a little tired," he says, "I like to do the accounts, because they are so definite. Spiritual problems are seldom definite...