Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...archaic ruling that classified hospitals primarily as charitable institutions. Now the Ohio Supreme Court has overturned the ruling, pointing out that hospitals can get liability insurance like any other business. Hospital trustees need not fear personal liability. ¶ To raise $500,000 for its expansion fund, Burge Hospital in Springfield, Mo. devised a novel come-on: donors may receive half the amount of their subscriptions in hospital services during the next ten years. With two weeks still to go, the campaign had netted $350,000. ¶ Congress sent to the President a bill to set up a National Library...
...Illinois last week sign painters were at work expunging the words ELECT ORVILLE E. HODGE, YOUR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR from a state Republican Party campaign billboard on a main road outside Springfield. In Springfield and Chicago, as the state budgetary commission began a thorough investigation of the state auditor's office, two grand juries, G-men, Internal Revenue men and representatives of half a dozen other county, state and federal agencies were interrogating witnesses, sifting evidence, and painstakingly piecing together a mosaic of one of the biggest financial scandals in Illinois history...
...didn't need the money." Epping, his office manager, was fired. All week, as news reports put the total haul at more than $1,000,000, Hodge, Epping and Banker Hintz were questioned by county and federal attorneys. The result was a jurisdictional tangle between Springfield and the federals over who would get the first indictments...
Unfair Advantage. In Springfield, Ill., Lester D. Plummer asked a judge to annul his month-old marriage on the ground that he was so "emotionally upset" by the divorce from his first wife that he didn't know what he was doing when he remarried...
...Children's Hour. In Springfield, Ohio, Mrs. Rosa Apone put a classified ad in the local paper-"Child Care, hour, day, week. Inexperienced, unreliable, unreasonable rates, no references"-next day got 50 phone calls from interested parents...