Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the committee working on the problem will devise a completely new approach to grading. If, however, it does not plan a thorough reconstruction, and intends to make changes within the existing framework, it should record plusses and minuses so that rank group ratings will more accurately represent a man's effort, ability, and accomplishment...
...school will operate a special six weeks' program for graduates in education. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering also plan programs, but these will probably last for the regular eight weeks...
Representative Rankin's pension plan for veterans of the two World Wars is now in the lap of a highly nervous Congress. This plan, which would give every veteran $90 a month beginning with his sixty-fifth year, is probably the most ambitious special interest plunge into the federal treasury ever attempted by mortal man. The Budget Bureau, in quivering tones, has reported that Mr. Rankin's boondoggle would cost the country something like $125,000,000,000 by the year...
...that he is out in the open, Congressman Rankin is going to have relatively smooth sailing. Most Senators or Representatives would rather spit on Old Glory than be caught in the act of voting against the Veteran, even if they know that the Rankin plan would make the federal budget a grotesque joke. On Tuesday, for example, the House voted twice to chop the enacting clause out of the pension bill--which would have squelched it--but when Rankin demanded a roll call vote, the opposition vanished as if by magic. The enacting clause was left...
...only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary for the whole nation--not just veterans. And if Rankin gets most of what he wants, the United States might as well get ready to ask Western Europe for a Marshall Plan in reverse...