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Representative Foster Furcolo (D-Mass.), who has introduced several unsuccessful measures for federal aid, was highly pessimistic about the bill's chances in Congress...
...Under Furcolo's most recent bill, which is basically the name as the Ewing proposal, the government would give $800 Scholarships for students "scholastically qualified and financially needy." Under both proposals, the state would select scholarship students...
Federal aid to college students has a "rocky road to travel" before it passes Congress, Representative Foster Furcolo (D-Mass.) said yesterday...
...Furcolo, who has introduced unsuccessful bills in 1949, 1950, and 1952, told the CRIMSON that legislation on which Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing is now working, "while not identical, does incorporate many of the same features as my bills."--He said he doubted that the new legislation would have any more success than his bills have had in the past...
...Furcolo said the fact that the administration is strongly behind this legislation may help it through Congress. In his budget message last fall the President declared that there is a need for "an increasing number of people who have advanced education and training." He added that a program of federal scholarship aid "is the logical and practical answer," and asked for an appropriation of 20 million dollars to implement the plan...