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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beset by an incorruptible, court-appointed board of monitors and by U.S. Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigators, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa last summer bought a bright stunt thought up by his lawyers*: Why not set up an investigating commission of his own? Promptly named as chairman of the Teamsters' three-member Anti-Racketeering Commission: Ohio Insuranceman George H. Bender, sometime Republican Congressman (1939-48; 1951-54) and U.S. Senator (1955-57), memorable to televiewers as the boar-shaped man at the 1952 Republican Convention who made himself conspicuous by ringing a cowbell at every mention...
...Rights and related laws offered what one vet calls a "bonus in advance," the most lavish assistance program in history (total Veterans Administration spending since 1946: $72 billion). Most important, the aid was given when and where it could help a man re-enter competitive society. U.S. Employment Service set up a nationwide job hunt. The VA guaranteed $50 billion worth of low-interest loans to help buy 5,700,000 homes, 73,000 farms, 237,000 small businesses. Riding a gravy train, 8,500,000 joined the "52-20 Club," by 1949 spent up to 52 weeks (average...
...fewer than 7,800,000 World War II vets took on-job or school training, 2,200,000 of them in college. There they built no Hutchins "hobo jungles" but Quonset villages whence hard-working married vets set new high standards of academic achievement. "They knew how to move," says a Harvard dean, "and they moved." They more than doubled the number who, by prewar standards, would have been trained for the professions: 168,000 doctors and dentists, 105,000 lawyers, 93,000 social scientists and economists, 238,000 teachers, 440,000 engineers, 112,000 scientists...
...trading nation, other European nations followed suit. In rapid succession, West Germany, Italy, the Scandinavian countries and the Benelux nations all proclaimed their currencies externally convertible. (Denmark, responding to the drama of the occasion, revealed that it was following the British example even before the British treasury set the example...
Even more educational was the composition of his memoirs. Painstakingly set down in elongated script, the memoirs were written in a classic prose Frenchmen had not seen in a long time?precise yet lyrical, stamped with honor, revealing the essential selflessness of a man dedicated to his nation's grandeur. On the strength of this literary achievement, France's intellectuals?who do so much to set their country's political tone?for the first time gave De Gaulle their wholehearted admiration.* And in the act of reducing his life to book form, the general reviewed his past mistakes, sketched...