Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hottest talk was over the Secretary of State. Cordell Hull, 73, has not resigned, and certainly would not, health permitting. But he had been at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital for three weeks with a bad throat; he had needed extended vacations in the last few years. For his place, if he were forced to quit, the dopesters had many candidates: Henry Wallace, Sumner Welles, Ambassador Winant, Under Secretary Stettinius. But as long as Cordell Hull wanted the job, Franklin Roosevelt would let him keep...
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First reports of the fracas definitely identified only one participant. He was Lieut. Randolph Dickins Jr., of Bradenton, Fla., 6 ft. 2 in., a hero of the Battle of Midway, who had been a combat-fatigue patient at the Navy's Bethesda for ten weeks, after 42 months' service. After the story had broken, Navy superiors permitted Lieut. Dickins to tell his side...
Died. Navy Chief Specialist Gus Sonnenberg, 44, onetime pretender to professional wrestling's hypothetical crown; of leukemia; in the Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital. Cauliflower-eared Sonnenberg played football for Dartmouth and the Providence Steamrollers, taught in Detroit high schools, introduced football's flying tackle to wrestling, topped most of his ringmates in grunting & groaning. He once lost a "championship" when a moth flew into his mouth and choked...
...Spent a morning at the Navy's skyscraper hospital at Bethesda, Md., for a physical checkup...