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...smoky, second-floor room in Easton, Pa., Post Commander George Lacey told the sprawled Legionnaires of Brown and Lynch Post: "Fellows, there's nothing to discuss here. The national convention opposes the Hoover veterans' recommendations.* That's an edict. If we don't go along, we lose our charter." The Legionnaires docilely chorused agreement. But one Legionnaire was shocked. Legionnaire Martin Merson, a 44-year-old lawyer and Navy veteran, who is still gaunt from malaria contracted on Guadalcanal, began checking around. He found that most of the post members had not the slightest idea...
Veterans Are Different. Last week, goaded by Merson, the Easton post agreed to debate the Hoover report again. National headquarters sent a special representative and the district commander to introduce him. After the lighting of cigars and swearing to the Legion's pledge of "100% Americanism," debate began. The national command had one defense ("Veterans are a selected group") and one tacit assumption: any change in the Veterans Administration would loosen the Legion's traditional grip on VA matters. Merson's forces argued only that the Hoover proposals would be more efficient. Cried Merson: "Shall...
...California's freshman Senator Richard Nixon, who made his mark on the House Un-American Activities Committee as the man who brought down Alger Hiss. Margaret Smith was banished to the subcommittee on reorganization, with little to do but look into any executive plans for implementing the Hoover Commission recommendations...
Roberts, who served on the Supreme Court from 1933 to 1945, was appointed to the court by Herbert Hoover. He was selected in 1942 by President Roosevelt as Chairman of the committee which investigated the attack at Pearl Harbor. Recently, he toured the country advocating his own plan of World Federalism...
Douglas noted that this was precisely the policy urged by Great Britain. "This comparison may shock our British friends," said he. "It is nevertheless true that their reluctance to back us up in the Far East is very similar to Mr. Hoover's reluctance to back them up in Europe...