Virginia bankers urged to humanize service at convention
Virginia Bankers Association delegates at the Cavalier hotel in Virginia Beach urged banks to welcome customers and help war veterans seeking loans. Frank W. Lovejoy of Socony Vacuum stressed reconstructing banking forms and avoiding barriers. Association President Pressley Warren Anderson noted that while veterans’ loans aren’t always possible, no banker should brusquely refuse. The group voted to convert the association and named six new directors. officer elections were expected.
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Avirginia Beach
Virginia
E Street
Frank W. Lovejoy
Ing
Virginiakers’ Association
Cavalier Hotel
New York
Association
Pressley Warren Anderson
National Bank and Trust Company of Marshall
Smilar
VBA
Jay
Anderson
Executive Council
Parran Seeks Global Health Unity at World Conference
General Parran, head of the U S public health service, urged forming a health organization as a step toward peace during remarks to delegates at the World Health Conference in New York. He spoke after being elected chairman of the United Nations agency as the gathering of 67 nations seeks a framework for a world health body. He warned that health financing and taxes fall outside a health group and stressed harmony as essential to medical cooperation.
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New York
General Parran
U. S. Public Health Service
Parran
Jerence
State Plans Takeover of Woodrow Wilson Hospital
Virginia authorities move to take over the Woodrow Wilson general hospital near Staunton from the War Assets Administration on July 16. Gov Tudor seeks funding options to cover tuberculosis care and equipment costs while avoiding a special legislative session. Morgan Birge says transfer possible without state cash outlay.
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Richmond
Woodrow Wilson General Hospital
Staunton
War Assets Administration
Army Institution
Virgin
Virginia
Tuck
A. P. Staples
General Assembly
Morgan Birge
WAA
Woodrow “Wilson Hospital Study Commission
Business Men's Group To Operate Piers
Washington reports Rep. Daughton said he had been notified that Norfolk businessmen would operate released positions of Norfolk army base piers. The notice from the maritime authority outlines a plan for piers operation.
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Washington
Daughton
D-Va
Norfolk
Jenkins
Norfalk Army Base
Turnabout Trickery and Binding Offer Debate
Caughton said a Norfolk businessmen group and Senator Byrd protested an oral bid by a maritime commission induced by local versus foreign interests. The highest offer from Norfolk Terminal Inc was 36 percent of gross revenues or 65000 dollars a year, tied to piers one and two. Politics were incidental, he claimed, amid local competing interests.
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Caughton
Norfolk
Commission
Witnesses Test Mistreatment Claims At Lichfield Prisoner Case
In Bad Nauheim Germany on June 20 witnesses described seeing Lt Leonard W Ennis strike a prisoner at the Lichfield guardhouse. Under cross examination each gave a different version of the incident and named different witnesses present. The proceeding forms part of a larger court martial involving 16 defendants including Col James A Killian who faced recess while missing witnesses are sought.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
Leonard W. Ennis
Luchfield
Peekskill
Caamner
England
Corp
Loveless
Ennis
Lichfield
James A. Killian
Army
Labor Secretaries Approved By Senate
The Senate labor committee approved three new assistant secretaries of labor Philip Hannah Ohio David A Morse New Jersey and John W Gibson Michigan It also approved James J Reynolds New York to join the National Labor Relations Board
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Philip Hannah
Ohio
David A. Morse
New Jersey
John W. Gibson
Michigan
James J. Reynolds
New York
National Labor Relations Board
Tricking Tulips To Bloom In Winter In World War II Era South Africa
Dutch scientists in wartime overcame seasonal delays by using hot and cold chambers to slow or accelerate bulb development for southern hemisphere plantings. Tulips flowering in Holland this spring are planned to bloom in South African gardens next November.
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Johanne
Holland
South Afr
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Eis Il
Gen. Parran
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Pedere
Berest
Winter Haven
Fila
Dial
Bluefield, West VA
Taylor's
Bluefield
W. Va
Montgomery Ward
Federel St
Senate
Dail
Heidelberg
Rose
Jewelry Company
Mercer ST
Princeton, W. VA
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