Word: duns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under public pressure to "Home Fire Division") demanded free transportation to Europe "to view the future burying ground of our dead," a program supported by "National Commander" Gorin in a second, copyrighted manifesto. At City College in New York an association of Foreign Correspondents in Future Wars organized to dun the Government for money "to establish training courses for members of the association in the writing of atrocity stories...
...foreign capitals to make demands, usually futile, for payment on defaulted dollar bonds. Last week Cuba witnessed a surprising combination of those two commonplaces. At the head of a protective committee two U. S. Senators marched into the Presidential Palace in Havana for no other purpose than to dun. The committee's chairman was Senator Gerald P. Nye; its counsel, Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...church, which had called him from Forest Park Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into R. G. Dun & Co. (now Dun & Bradstreet). Dr. Buchanan appointed three devout Presbyterians as watchdogs to see that his church should have the $77,296 only so long as its pastor adheres to "the Presbyterian Confession of Faith in the U. S. A. as of the year...
...Said Dun & Bradstreet: "During the week there was a complete transformation of sentiment as the hopes for a rather far-removed improvement were replaced by a realization that the immediate future is to bring the sharpest rise that has been witnessed in business in the past quarter of a century...
...Said Dun & Bradstreet several days later in a hasty disclaimer: "No significant information justified the inadvertent and unauthorized departure from our policy of not making predictions as to the future business trend...