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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Policy: Foreign aid should be sliced from $7 billion to $1 billion or $2 billion a year; Marshall Plan aid must stop in 1952. "Our money would be better spent on our Air Force and air defenses than in building up countries that can't possibly stand against Russia...
Back to Pokey. After he was turned loose, the law found it necessary to lock him up again for violating his parole: he had celebrated his release by helping a friend bilk an old lady out of her money. When he got out the second time, the war was on. He went to Honolulu, talked himself into a job with the Army Engineers, and in three months was bossing 300 electricians. Then he returned to the mainland and, despite his prison record, got a job at the Hanford atomic-energy plant. In 1944 he went back to California...
...customers was a wealthy Spanish cattleman named Ramon Samovia; Yant confided to Samovia that oil had just been discovered near some property he owned in Placerita Canyon-he would be rich as soon as he dug up enough money to sink a well himself. Samovia bought into his scheme...
...gift to the American Veterans Committee was reported last night to the College chapter by Endicott Peabody '42, Massachusetts State Chairman of the AVC. The money donated by Mrs. Anita Blaine McCormick will pull the national organization out of the red, Peabody said...
Wallach's other ground for challenging Father Feeney's right to receive GI Bill money is the "avocational" bar of the federal statute. "Tap dancing and ventriloquism have been ruled improper courses of study," he said. "I would argue that anyone who wants to make an avocation of hate should be obliged to pay for it himself...