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...servicemen in the Pacific will be commemorated by something more enduring than marble or bronze. The Pacific War Memorial will be a scientific foundation with the whole Pacific Ocean as its laboratory...
Urging ex-servicemen to "resist the defeatist trend now gaining momentum in America," Edward J. McHale, National Field Secretary of the American Veterans Committee, told the Harvard AVC chapter at its first fall meeting last night in the New Lecture Hall that old-line veterans' groups demonstrated at their recent conventions how incapable they are of meeting today's problems...
...bonus are dubious indeed. Few families and few wage earners are not closely tied to one or more veterans; and the astronomic sums necessary to give each veteran even a few hundred dollars would have to be taken in taxes from the families or relatives of ex-servicemen. Veteran groups, anxious to serve the nation as well as themselves, have decided that their efforts can be most advantageously directed toward securing a sufficiency of low cost housing or suppressing the current inflationary boom. These too have been the aims of able and sincere politicians who have refused to court...
...which to live and work. The mentally and physically sound veteran asks no more than a fair opportunity to reach the position in American society for which his talents qualify him. If self-seeking "grabbers," like the bonus marchers from the Ozarks, persist in their demands, many conscientious ex-servicemen may be shamed into renouncing the title "veteran" for a simple, less exclusive "citizen...
...ROTC complement, Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U.S.N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced yesterday provisions of the new Holloway plan for midshipmen and plans for admitting veterans to the advanced courses of his department. Fifty percent of the 108 men enrolled in the unit this term are ex-servicemen...