Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costs, and raise the monthly allotments for personal expenses by five dollars. The third approach, and the one most likely to receive Congressional approval, is Representative Olin Teague's idea of paying all tuition funds directly to the veteran, instead of to the institutions as the other two bills recommend. The Teague bill provides for higher personal allotments and a fiat grant of approximately $270 per year for tuition purposes...
...will leave this spring, due to the failure of the History Department to recommend him for promotion to associate professorship. His present appointment does not run out for another year, but Hughes decided to leave the department and look for a new job at the end of this term...
...critics that he knew were waiting for him. "There are those among us," said the President belligerently, "who say we can't afford it. We've heard that one before . . . The figure of $7.9 billion . . . was not just taken out of the air ... I would not recommend that the Congress spend a single dollar more than our national security requires." This, too, was typical Truman-at his worst. Actually, his estimates are -and have to be-very rough approximations of what is needed. Truman's long feud with Congress is rubbed raw by the President...
...question before the tent was what the military commanders of both sides should recommend to their governments for joint discussion, after a truce is effected. Hitherto the Communists have been demanding that any settlement of the Korean question must also include settlement of Formosa and U.N. recognition of Red China. Now Nam simply proposed that a high-level political conference be held, within three months of signing the armistice, "by representatives appointed respectively to settle . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean question, et cetera...
...usual, one of the leading exports of the busy South this season has been fiction. Last week there were three new books on the market, in three emphatically different styles, each with something to recommend...