Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight of Mrs. John S. Power, widow of a civilian economist employed by the Army in Berlin. Ten months after her husband's death in a plane crash in Paris, Mrs. Power had still not received his insurance. The President ordered the Veterans Administration to get hopping. The VA grumbled, but hopped. Then the President boarded the Williamsburg for a daylong, family cruise across the green gulf waters to the Dry Tortugas...
...Words a Day. Eisenhower wrote Crusade in Europe after four years of prodding from friends in & out of the Army. Once he decided to do it, he made a quick, sharp campaign of it. On Feb. 7 of this year, in his quarters at Fort Myer, Va., he started to dictate at a clip of 5,000 words a day, pacing steadily as he talked. After his shorthand expert had left for the day, he corrected the first draft, began to add to it in longhand, and soon found himself working on until 3 a.m. By March 24-46 days...
Anybody in Exmore, Va. would have known that Melvin ("Bad Boy") Collins was a colored man who might try to blow your head off. He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes. He had cut his own brother with a knife. But Bad Boy had left Virginia last month. He had headed north, and in the Negro district of Chester, Pa., nobody knew his reputation...
JAMES WHARTON Weems, Va...
Danville, Va...