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Then came witnesses for the nephews and nieces to testify that a Christian might believe almost anything, or nothing. As for the Apostles' Creed, said the Rev. Lewis L. Dunnington of Iowa City's First Methodist Church, "many things" in it are unacceptable to many Christians. On the question of the Virgin Birth, for example, "I tell my parishioners to pay their money and take their choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What Is a Christian? | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Counter Demand. In Chillicothe, Mo., a clerk in a haberdashery told Customer Wilbur Dunnington that he was "all out of shirts," offered to buy Wilbur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Debate. As talk cleared the way for more talk, the battle lines developed in the board room. On one side were the New Yorkers, more sensitive to the foreign issue. They were led by potent Manhattan Attorney Walter G. Dunnington, who had nursed Torkild Rieber along from promotion to promotion in his 36 years with Texas Corp., felt responsible. As the representative of Texas Corp.'s biggest single stockholder (estate of Empire Builder James J. Hill's son), Director Dunnington's opinion was important. Reluctantly, he felt that the chairman's tongue-wagging had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exit Rieber | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Meanwhile things were happening on the board. To it went a trouble-shooter of experience, William Grey Dunnington, who had helped push Cap Rieber to the top of Texas Corp., has for some years been attorney for Mrs. O'Brien. Promptly Mr. Dunnington was elected a member of a trouble-shooting executive committee of seven, including Morgan-Partner Harry P. Davison, onetime Morgan-Partner William Ewing, Donald Kirk David (representing the Ziegler interests) and Paul Fleischmann. Last week Standard Brands had other changes to announce. To President Thomas L. Smith, onetime Standard Brands wagon man, had gone the duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Pennies from Leaven | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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