Word: dunned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation of some of the men who will be Bishops, or to be one." With these questioning words, a man who had been preparing other men for the ministry last week pondered the call to be a Bishop himself. The see: Washington, D.C. The man: the Very Rev. Angus Dun, 51, dean of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass...
Other considerations may also have inclined Dean Dun to make haste slowly. Well does he know that Washington's Bishop is expected to be a go-getter, to spend much time raising millions to finish the half-completed Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, the majestic fane abuilding on Mount St. Alban for the past 36 years. Like all liberal Episcopalians, Dr. Dun, a great proponent of unity with Presbyterians, does not consider cathedrals important, would much rather be "a real pastor to the parish ministers" in the diocese...
...Dun also knows that his election took place in a convention not free from ill will. Dissatisfaction arose when the nominating committee, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, picked four candidates, all of them liberals, all graduates of Dr. Dun's Cambridge school. Both high and low church groups resented the committee's failure to put any but broad-church candidates on the slate. One group, which favored New York City's young Dr. C. Avery Mason, charged that their candidate was a victim of politics in the best Washington style. Mason ran second...
Definite Dean. Brown-eyed, greying Bishop-elect Dun was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, thinks he went to Sunday school about twice. At Yale, under the influence of Historian Henry
Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...