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...were spent crossing the northern part of 1934's Great Drought. Those days were memorable. His progress was like a triumphal procession. Uninvited thousands drove miles across the blistered plains to hear him speak. And, like a miracle, within a few hours of his passing through those dull, dun, desiccated lands, showers followed, then drenching rains (TIME...
...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...
Oldest U. S. broadcasting station was off the air for an hour when failure of power silenced Pittsburgh's KDKA. Other broadcasters took what the flood brought them with varying degrees of enterprise. National Broadcasting Company sent out engineers and announcers to look at acres of dun-colored water, broadcast what they saw. Columbia Broadcasting System relayed the flood descriptions of local stations...
...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...