Word: veteran
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Step No. Two was an overall defense production board. This agency would coordinate the rearmament output of the twelve NATO members. Little progress had been made to date on standardization of equipment. The U.S. would be represented on this board by William L. Batt, a veteran World War II production man, former president of the S.K.F. Industries and present ECA chief in London...
...time for holiday reading, Good Housekeeping proudly presented the opening chapters of Francis Cardinal Spellman's first novel, The Foundling, the story of a baby found in a Roman Catholic cathedral by a Protestant veteran of World War I. The cardinal, author of half-a-dozen books, announced that he had turned over his rights to the Roman Catholic New York Foundling Hospital...
...years of legal wrangling, ruled that a man whose wife had a normal baby 360 days after he last saw her is entitled to a divorce on grounds of adultery. By a four-to-one majority the Law Lords of the House of Lords granted a decree to R.A.F. Veteran Charles Preston Jones. His wife gave birth on Aug. 13, 1946. Jones proved that he had not visited her since Aug. 18, 1945. Her claim that the baby was his was upheld by a lower court. The Lords noted that various British courts have held in the past that births...
Into the $18,000-a-year job of press secretary for President Truman this week stepped Joseph Hudson Short Jr., 46, Virginia Military Institute graduate, veteran newsman and Baltimore Sun White House correspondent for the last five years. Mississippi-born Joe Short got to know Harry Truman well while covering his vice-presidential campaign of 1944, has been a good friend ever since...
Leaving the rest of the party snug in the monastery, Dr. Charles Houston of Exeter, N.H. (son of Leader Houston) and Major H. W. Tilman, veteran British mountain climber, hired three Sherpa porters to do the heavy toting and set out for the mountain, which towered abruptly above them. They faced a part of Nepal which is wholly unexplored except by natives...