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...rate, Kenya seemed well on the way to solving its unemployment problem. To qualify for veterans' benefits, Nairobi's neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing for Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Branch offices of his ruling KANU party, having promised to feed all newly returned Mau Maus until they get settled, were going broke all through the former White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: And Where Were You In the War, Daddy? | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Congratulations to the CRIMSON for jumping into the breach in New York! Thanks for your support when needed most. Enjoyed particularly your editorial "To the 8,000,000 Neediest"! Nice to feel support from dear ol' Cambridge' J. Roorbach (Sister of G. Roorbach '49 and E. H. Roorbach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE NEW YORK EDITION | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Inevitably, on November 17, the Corporation voted to reject the funds, in a joint announcement with Yale. President Pusey wrote the Commissioner of Education that the disclaimer "is discriminatory since it singles out students alone in our population--and among students, the neediest--as subjects for special distrust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Vote Approves Repeal Of NDEA Disclaimer Provision | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...President and his Agriculture Secretary claimed it to be-merely a teapot tempest. The most important villain in the Estes case is the vast tangle of the farm price-support system, with its accompanying systems of production controls and surplus storage. Price-support programs provide scant help for the neediest farmers; the most bountiful benefits flow to prosperous farmers, who could get along with no Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Decline & Fall | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...disclaimer affidavit and an oath of allegiance to the United States. "The oath of allegiance required by section 1001 (f) (2) makes the disclaimer affidavit superfluous," Pusey continued. The disclaimer affidavit, he said, "is also discriminatory since it singles out students alone in our population--and among students, the neediest--as subjects for special distrust... Since the (disclaimer) provision would present no barrier to those it is designed to catch, it is ineffective... As a kind of test-oath substituting an implied threat of coercion for persuasion in the realm of ideas, it seems counter to the philosophical principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Vote Rejects NDEA Student Loan Funds | 11/18/1959 | See Source »

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