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Highest praise should go to President Truman and the nine Congressmen against the Rankin ("Veteran's Grab") Bill [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . No veteran wants to be treated as a member of a select group; if his country's cause is just, the veteran does not feel that his country is in debt to him for having served...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 18--A new G.I. Bill of Rights granting educational aid to veterans of the Korean war will almost certainly be passed in the next session of Congress, Representative John E. Rankin (D.-Miss.), chairman of the House Committee on Veteran's Affairs, told the CRIMSON today...
Earlier, the University submitted recommendations to a Congressional committee headed by Representative Olin E. Teague (D.-Texas), which is currently investigating abuses of the old G.I. bill. No action will be taken until after Congress hears the Teague report. Rankin said...
Mississippi's pouch-eyed John Rankin rose in the House last week to oppose an immigration proposal. "Our immigration laws should not be set aside," he cried. "This country is being literally flooded with un-American elements, a vast number of whom are today undermining and trying to wreck this Government and to destroy the American way of life." Colleagues pointed out that the bill was only designed to admit one three-year-old boy, half Japanese and half American, who had been adopted by an Air Force captain and his wife in Japan. "They always have some kind...
VETERANS The Grab In the Senate last week, no Senator rose to defend the President's veto of the disabled veterans' pension bill. The special handiwork of Mississippi's John Rankin and the powerful veterans' lobby, the bill gives $120 each month to crippled ex-G.I.s whose disabilities are in no way connected with their military service (TIME, Aug. 27). The House had already overridden the veto by an overwhelming margin. The Senate promptly followed suit...