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US GCA HM1/278-4-Folder 10-Item:
Title
Letter from Brunk to Bender
Date(s)
- April 18, 1931 (Creation)
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(1897-1962)
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Defense of himself and objection to Bender e.g. treating him like a dog by saying he was “barking up the wrong tree”, etc. etc.; on “loyalty”, “safeguards”; on differing with Menno; objection to “misrepresentations, of real conservatives”; if a “man neglects his fences” the cattle “get in the nabers” [sic] corn; “I must pray the Lord to save me from the historian that calls the Burhkart incident a “smile” or that I “made light of Oyer because he was young!”; obscure remark evidently about meeting with state officials on the flag issue; and “… am. Legion [American Legion] – gentlemen Junior Order & Ku Klux [Ku Klux Klan] hostile – Geo. R” [end of letter].
Date on letter: 4-17-1931