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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This letter is written primarily because I resent the obviously prejudiced remarks made by a group claiming to represent the opinions of all veterans. I have no objection to any individual or group of individuals expressing their political views, but I do object to the use of the term "veterans" in making their views known publicly. We have the AMVETS, AVC, VFW, veteran bars, veteran filling stations, veteran cabs, and now Veterans Against MacArthur. When will the Veterans Committee Against Veterans Committees be organized? Allen E. Kline...
Even without such pressagentry, Strong Man Perón was all set to win this week's election. He 'needed a two-thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies to get a constitutional amendment permitting him to succeed himself when his term expires in 1952. For weeks, he had artfully played on the nationalistic feelings of the Argentines...
Delegates hailed the agreement with such high-sounding phrases as "the first multilateral long-term contract in history." But a wheat agreement had been signed by 22 nations in 1933, and had proved unworkable. Besides, this one was not yet a contract. Before it becomes one, it must be approved by Congress and the other governments concerned. And as long as wheat remains high (current cash price: around $2.50 a bushel), the U.S. farm bloc will bitterly fight any attempt to put it under a $2 ceiling...
Both "Gross" and "Lord" concentrated their buying in the field of Applied Science, with a few books in Engineering, Mathematics, and romance languages. In the fall term, "Lord" acquired two slide rules, one of them an expensive circular model, with the forged orders...
Monro said the crook took advantage of extreme confusion in Memorial Hall to get his authorizations last fall, but apparently acquired a stamp some time in February and just by-passed the spring term book lines. Different book cards, with different numbers, were used