New federal coordinator urged to cut red tape for veterans
Washington reports Lt. Col Winthrop Rockefeller called for a czar of veterans affairs to coordinate 15 federal agencies and push a far reaching employment drive. He urged a citizen task force to correct injustices and a GI Bill reform to improve efficiency amid widespread veteran hardship.
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Washington
Veterans Affairs
War Department
Patterson
Winthrop Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Col. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Nelson
Veterans Administration
Omar N. Bradley
Colleges House Married Veterans in West Virginia Housing
More than 300 married veterans and families occupy government housing at state colleges in Charleston. Single men struggle due to plumbing material shortages hindering dormitory completion, with occupancy unlikely at semester start. federal housing aid will provide homes for 500 families and 900 single men. quonset huts allotted to WVU and Concord State College plus other institutions. Snakes speeds noted unrelated science trivia.
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Charleston
W. Va
L. Steele Trotter
Board of Control
Trotter
Federal Public Housing Administration
West Virginia University
Concord State College
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
Marshall, Bluefield
West Virginia State Colleges
FASTEETH Promises Easier Denture Wear and Odor Control
An ad promises FASTEETH powder provides more comfort and a firmer hold for false teeth. It claims to ease eating and talking and to neutralize denture breath by deodorizing. The product is advertised as available at drug stores for denture users.
Acquittal in Threat Letter Case Tails Whitney
A Michigan advertising man, Edward W. Whitney of Walled Lake, was acquitted by a federal jury after 25 minutes of deliberation on charges of sending a threatening letter through the mail to a Chicago Christian Science practitioner blamed for his daughter's death. Whitney testified he acted under mental strain and sought “justifiable, insane desire for justice.”
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Chicago
Michigan
Edward W. Whitney
Lake, Mich
William G
Whitn
Robert
Ide
Degnan
Suzanne Degnan
U. S
Edward J. Bradley
Whitney
Christian Science
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Radio Service Company
Northfork
Briar Pipes
Sherman’s Shervac
For All
Save At Cohen’s
Merrell's Cravax
Eli Lilly & Co
Entoral
Carton
Prince Albert
Johnson’s Baby Powder
Castoria, Fletchers
Alka-Seltzer
Cohen
Hughes
Ex Nylon
Scott’s
Emulsion Gillette Blue Blades
Masterole Yardley
Don
Upjohn
Umbrella
Ams
Metal
Zara Cohens
Yaaa Wee
Federal ST
Bluefield, W. VA
Utituy Durer
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Noxzema
Colleges House Married Veterans
California
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