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1942Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)[†]
William Lawrence Dunn was a Canadian singer-songwriter, film director and politician. Born in Montreal, he was of mixed Mi'kmaq and Scottish/Irish background. Dunn often highlighted indigenous issues in his work.
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Presents NAM Fed tax program, Sen com hearing
US pilots smash 3 Ital cruisers in raid on Ital base, Pylos, Greece
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Aug. 13 -- The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. In brief, this seemed today to describe the state of affairs in the Tulagi area of the Solomon Islands. Since all communiques on the operations are being issued elsewhere, South Pacific headquarters continued to maintain silence and declined to confirm or deny reports that the success of the attack was virtually assured.
Rankin bill passed, House; similar Clark bill passed, Sen, but vote vacated in absence of quorum; Navy Dept stand discussed
right wing gains conv control
AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Friday, Aug. 14 -- American Marines slashing through the jungles of the Solomon Islands from at least three beachheads were reported last night to be hurling the Japanese back while United States and other United Nations warships threw shells into enemy positions.
Axis claims convoy toll; some ships believed to have gotten through to Malta; Gers rept Brit aircraft carrier Furious damaged and US aircraft carrier Wasp afire; map
Gers advance toward Grozny; USSR lines hold elsewhere; Gers get reinforcements from allies
Roosevelt orders navy to seize Bayonne plant; text; mil police arrive; strikers elated: Hill describes strikers meeting; Petrakian says co misinformed NWLB on workers average wkly earnings; his career; Perth Amboy rally votes to abide by bd decision, following Lt Comdr Yandell appeal
LONDON, Friday, Aug. 14 -- Soon after a strong force of big British bombers returned early yesterday from a destructive raid for the second consecutive night on Mainz in the Rhineland, United States Army Air Forces officials here announced that American fighter squadrons in the forty-eight hours to 9 A.M. yesterday carried out thirty-one offensive sorties against the Germans on this front.