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    <abstract id="aspace_7160715328b405f167bafac829629515">Two lists, alphabetical and chronological, of honorary degree recipients of West Virginia University. Recipients include Newton D. Baker, Waitman Barbe, Michael Benedum, Luis Borges, Pearl Buck, Robert C. Byrd, Henry S. Commager, Roy Bird Cook, Earl Core, John J. Cornwell, Marmaduke Dent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry D. Hatfield, John L. Lewis, J.A. McBride, Jennings Randolph, Sam Rayburn, Harold E. Stassen, Cyrus Vance, I.C. White, and Charles Yeager.</abstract>
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    <subject source="local_LC">World War, 1939-1945 -- Letters</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Rayburn, Sam - Speech.</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Pinecrest Sanitarium  (Beckley, W. Va.)</corpname>
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