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...straighten out matters for the future, Chalmers has proposed that the people of Benton City and the surrounding towns equip a small, six-bed hospital-clinic. Chalmers will then rent the hospital, get another doctor to join him. He hopes to assure the hospital of some funds by qualifying it as a treatment center for industrial-hospitalization plans. An added proviso: the town will take over Dr. Chalmers' bookkeeping...
...York's Supreme Court moved to straighten out the troubled lives of the two sons of executed Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The boys, Michael, 11, and Robert. 6. were given by the Rosenberg's defense attorney, the late Emanuel Bloch. to a Manhattan couple, Songwriter Abel (Strange Fruit) Meeropol and his wife. The Society for the Prevention of-Cruelty to Children charged that, in the hands of the Meeropols, the two orphans were ruthlessly exploited by Communist groups as fund-raising tools and propaganda sob stories. This week State Supreme Court Justice James B. M. McNally...
...arrangement between the Key and Managers' Council will probably provide for weekly conferences between manager and Key man to straighten out details of a team's visit to Cambridge. It is currently the job of the Key representative to send out forms to traveling squads and plan their stay so that details are kept to a minimum...
...legal commit sense, tee, as we understand it, is not set up with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde was a letter to the effect that a sworn affidavit which we had voluntarily provided, because we wanted to straighten out once for all any ambiguities about certain tenuous "affiliations" of years past, was acceptable to the completion of committee the as a record . . "clarification." Again, to say that we personally received a citation from the California American Legion for our anti-Communist activities rather overstates the case. The citation was given...
...allies; Moscow has of late been making particularly gracious gestures toward the French. He believed the new Soviet regime wanted time to consolidate and improve conditions inside Russia. Sir Winston sat slumped in his chair, head down, glasses at nose's end, seeming to nod only to straighten up when prodded by a word or point that interested him. At last he pushed his glasses back into place, and gave his views of the Soviet...