Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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VICTOR H. KRULAK Lieutenant Colonel, U.S.M.C. Quantico, Va...
...Williamsburg, Va., the A.P.'s Kent Cooper told a newsmen's banquet that it was not that simple: government control of the press would obviously mean political control. The U.S. press would stay free, he said, provided it kept nothing from the people, and kept "defending the right of all to express their views through the printed word...
Last week, the Veterans Administration translated its bureaucratic gobbledygook. The veteran's "physical condition," said VA, "has not changed from a previous examination, and he is not entitled to compensation." Henceforth, a red-faced VA announced, all correspondence will be proofread by young veterans "to make sure it is really intelligible...
Late in March, the kids began toting their marbles to school in Roanoke, Va. At recess, there were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...
...rights and duties of scholars might do as well or better, was at least a debatable question. But Columbia was breaking no precedents in appointing General Eisenhower.* Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia's 85-year-old President Emeritus Nicholas Murray Butler had no doubts about the matter. Said he: "General Eisenhower...