Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Assistant: Major General (ret.), Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 52, brother of Alabama's Democratic Governor Gordon Persons and former head of Staunton (Va.) Military Academy. A long time Army spokesman on Capitol Hill and Ike's public-relations adviser at NATO, he will be Ike's liaison man to Congress...
ERNEST A. STIFEL Wheeling, W. Va...
...square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares at Lexington, Ky., a training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete with game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. He rides to the hounds, shows his horses, is a member of the exclusive (50 members in the U.S.) Jockey Club. He is a vestryman of St. Hubert's Episcopal Chapel of Kirtland Hills, Ohio, not far from his estate...
...wife of the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Mrs. Mark (Willie Snow) Ethridge is a member of a rather small subdivision of womankind. Last week, at a meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Mrs. Ethridge good-naturedly explained just what was so special about being a newspaper publisher's wife...
...cause of the housing slowdown was the shortage of money for FHA and veterans' mortgages. Though other interest rates have moved up, the FHA and VA still will only insure mortgages at 4¼ and 4%, rates now too low to attract much bank money. The realtors were all in favor of FHA and veteran loan guarantees, but they thought that interest rates should be set on a flexible, regional basis rather than one rate across the nation. Said Atlanta Realtor Henry H. Robinson: if VA interest rates were allowed to rise, "Expect a terrific boom in G.I. home...