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    "label": "Wright, Elizabeth x-filed Thomas, Elizabeth Wright",
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    "title": "Wright, Elizabeth x-filed Thomas, Elizabeth Wright",
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        "day": 15,
        "logicalDate": "1945-06-15",
        "month": 6,
        "year": 1945
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        "logicalDate": "1941-12-23",
        "month": 12,
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    "ocrText": "AMERICAN RED CROSS\nHawaii Chapter\no\no\nHONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS\nHONOLULU 34, HAWAII, U.S. A.\nMay26,1945.\nMiss Virginia Dunbar\nDirector Nursing Service\nAmerican Red Cross\nNational Headquarters\nWashington, D.C.\nMy dear Miss Dunbar:\nMiss Elizabeth Wright\n1527B Wilder Ave.\nWright\nHonolulu, T.H.\nhas talked with me concerning a matter she wishes held in strictest\nconfidence, therefore please handle it as you see fit.\nShe applied for the Army Nurse Corps and her credentials were duly\nassembled. Recently she has received a letter from national headquarters\nstating that she was rejected or not eligible or words to that effect.\nIf her references were the cause, she thinks the following will explain\nit. The years she worked as a nurse, completed her college work etc.,\nshe was a Catholic sister and was known in these places as Sister\nM. deLellis c.s.c. not as Miss Elizabeth Wright.\nApparently it is against tradition or the rules of the order for\nboth names to be known or recorded. Therefore in strictest confidence\nshe told me her name as a sister in order that her records might be\ncleared. Therefore I believe, if the references were the reason for her\nrefusal, it would be worthwhile to write to her school and hospitals\nand ask about Sister M. de Lellis, C.S.C. which was Miss Wright's name\nduring these years. I do not believe it is proper to mention both names\nin a letter but you may know all about these things.\nShe gave two references for confirmation of her story:\nMother M. Rose Elizabeth C.S.C.\nSisters of the Holy Cross\nNotre Dame, Indiana\nMother M. Vincentia c.s.c.\nSisters of the Holy Cross\nNotre Dame, Indiana\nPlease act as you think best concerning Miss Wright and advise me if I\nmay assist in any way.\nSincerely his\nMrs. Nina Cobb\nNurse Recruitment secretary"
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