Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like many another high-ranking, low-paid public servant, he was having personal budget trouble. Last week Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, who in two years had achieved a "miracle" reorganization of veterans' medicine (TIME, Oct. 13), resigned as medical director of the Veterans Administration. General Omar Bradley, VA Administrator, who had persuaded him to take the job, was leaving. Hawley thought it was about time he left...
...succeed retiring General A. A. Vandegrift, President Truman last week delved down to the eighth name on the rank list. His man: Major General Clifton B. Gates, 54, one of the Pacific war's most brilliant island-hopping campaigners, now boss of the Marine school at Quantico, Va...
University, Va...
...Scarlet stretcher with hopes of Tiger steaks on the training table, the Varsity gridders whipped through a spirited workout on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Best shot in the arm for the unchastened squad was the reappearance of Jim Kenary after an enforced layoff that began at Charlottesville, Va...
...John Grain Kunkel, 49, shy darling of Dauphin County, Pa. Republican women, and brave host to some 800 of them at an annual squealy luncheon (TIME, May 19); and Katherine Smoot Kunkel, fortyish, widow of a Kunkel cousin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Arlington, Va...