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TIME may consider that "the 80th Congress had done all right by its 18 million veteran-constituents" [TIME, Aug. 18]. Some veterans do not share your enthusiasm for the work of the recently adjourned Congress...
...What the hell happened to all the proposed measures to house veterans and their families? I'd say the 80th Congress showed more allegiance to the real-estate lobby than it did to the veterans. It's time they forget the obscure measures and face the real issues...
...80th Congress had done all right by its 18 million veteran-constituents. Adding up the score last week, veterans could count at least 57 new laws designed to keep them financially solvent and politically grateful. The biggest single gift was the law permitting 8,500,000 ex-enlisted men to cash in $2 billion worth of World War II terminal-leave bonds, beginning next month. The rest of the bonanza added another round $200 million. Items...
...nearly 50 years under U.S. control, Puerto Rico has elected all its own legislators. Last week, when President Truman signed a bill passed by the 80th Congress, Puerto Rico also got the right to elect its own governor, heretofore appointed by the White House. Nov. 2, 1948, general election day in the U.S., was the date set for the island's first gubernatorial election...
...Trail. During the 80th's sessions, Bob Taft had walked more or less silently and uncomfortably in the footsteps of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg on matters of foreign policy. He followed that trail no longer. "I am not happy," he cried, "about the country's foreign policy...