Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gerard David Schine, 27, private, U.S. Army Military Police, was transferred last week from Camp Gordon, Ga. to Fort Myer, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, to be available for the great investigation, whose central question is: Did McCarthy threaten to blackmail the Army on Schine's behalf or did the Army threaten to use Schine as its blackmail weapon against McCarthy? When newsmen spotted Schine in the Senate Office Building last week, he ignored their questions, bounded up a staircase, three steps at a stride...
...Clem D. Johnston, 58, self-styled "typical small businessman," was elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to succeed Richard L. Bowditch. Owner of six wholesale groceries, a public warehouse and a 450-acre cattle farm near Roanoke, Va., Johnston has been an active member of the Chamber for 22 years and a business consultant to the RFC, the Navy, the OPA and the OEM. Johnston feels that there may be a slight increase in the number of small business failures, but he hopes that "we won't turn into a nation of economic hypochondriacs and go running...
Married. Martha Raye, 37, bumptious TV comedienne (Martha Raye Show); and Edward Thomas Begley, 30, a dancer on her TV program; he for the first time, she for the fifth; in a civil ceremony; in Arlington, Va...
Tatsuo Arima of Tokyo, Japan; Philip J. Andrews of Milton, Mass.; James E. Dale Jr. of Anoka, Minn.; Robert Gilmor Jr. of Woodborn, N. Y.; David C. Jordan of Charlottesville, Va.; Michael L. Murray of Westfield, N. J.; Thomas H. Rockel (Capt.) of Storrs, Conn.; Robert Wynne of Bethlehem, Pa.; Robert J. McLaughlin (Mgr.) of West Roxbury, Mass...
...Year Career. Those who graduate are soon tempted to leave the hospitals that trained them. Industry pays better, and now employs 13,000 nurses (as against 3,000 ten years ago), but trains none. State and VA hospitals take thousands more. Many go to work in doctors' orifices. "They're draining the ranks and not putting any back," complains an administrator. "If they'd leave us alone, I'm sure we could turn out enough nurses to run our hospitals." Clearly, "they" will not leave the hospitals alone, and the only solution is to train more...