Word: va
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Several weeks ago, Mr. Truman got in touch with George Marshall. Marshall had resigned as Secretary of State because of ill health in 1949. Since then, fully recovered, he had been serving energetically as president of the American Red Cross, living on his Leesburg, Va. estate. The President asked the general if he would take the job. Marshall asked his wife what she thought of his becoming Secretary of Defense. Mrs. Marshall did not mind a bit; it was just the general's sort of thing, she thought. Quite happily, George Marshall accepted...
When mild-mannered Gregory Swanson, a 24-year-old Negro attorney from Martinsville, Va., tried to register as a graduate student in the University of Virginia's law school, the university said no. Officials explained that the Virginia constitution forbids it, ignored the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that Negroes must be admitted to white colleges when there are no equal facilities for Negroes. Attorney Swanson went to court...
...dusk on June 26, 1862, General Robert E. Lee knew that his first major attack had ended in failure. Before him on the fields near Mechanicsville, Va. lay nearly 1,500 Confederate dead and wounded. McClellan's Army of the Potomac (casualties: 256) still stood intact, a menace to Richmond...
...October, 16 more U.S. cities will be added to the 33 already linked by television's coaxial cable and microwave relay network. The swing to the south will tie in Louisville, Huntington, W. Va., Nashville, Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C., Jacksonville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Moving westward, the net will pick up Indianapolis, Rock Island, Ill., Davenport and Ames, Iowa, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City. California's TV stations can join the national net late in 1951, when the final link between Omaha and San Francisco is completed...
Born. To Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge), 46, onetime Prime Minister of Hungary, who resigned (May 1947) after the Communists seized power, became a Virginia dairy farmer, and Julia Nagy, 43: their fourth and fifth children, twin daughters; in Arlington, Va. Names: Mary Susan and Sophia Katherine...