Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Start. In Amarillo, Texas, a seven-year-old culprit was hauled into juvenile court for stealing $5 and seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing charges of illegally wearing a Navy uniform and possessing an Army discharge, was convicted of polygamy (three wives...
Treatment. In Morgantown, W. Va., Mrs. Isabell Shaffer, suing the Monongalia General Hospital, charged that while she was being X-rayed there for a broken arm, she fell off the laboratory table and broke...
Undergraduate. In Albany, N.Y., the Franklin Credit School of Roanoke, Va. won a suit against Maurice J. Cleary, sometime student in its correspondence course in the operation of a collection agency, for failure to pay his tuition bill...
...reader in Norfolk, Va. asked if we could put him in touch with a subscriber in a country which grows teakwood. He wanted his favorite set of chessmen duplicated in teakwood, and he was willing to pay the cost of the project in TIME subscriptions. We gave him the name of a college student in India who had written us that he wanted very much to subscribe to TIME but couldn't afford it. Later on we hope to hear that they made a deal...
...accordance with local VA policy, veterans here can choose whether or not they want pay during the 15-day leave periods. Since Harvard schedules only a few days between terms, veterans here have always elected to refuse the 15-day leave...