Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Veterans Together. Stevenson's triumphal, whistle-tooting week began when Estes Kefauver called a press conference in the Congressional Room of Washington's venerable Willard Hotel-the same room where he had launched his campaign last December. There, standing by accident beneath an EXIT sign and flanked by grim-faced Manager Florence ("Jiggs") Donohue and onetime Truman Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Estes sadly read off his statement. Stevenson, "alone with me," fought his way through the primaries, said Estes; Stevenson had polled "over 600,000 votes more than I." Since Estes did not want...
...delegates and 1,850 alternates, to jam hotels and motels for 50 miles around. A fantastic corps of 4,000 reporters, pundits, photographers, radio and television performers, spielsmen and technicians (almost double the number in 1952) will swarm around Chicago's International Amphitheatre employing 400 veteran telegraphers to transmit 600,000 words an hour, sending photo plates whirlybirding from a rooftop heliport, poking television's Cyclopic eye into every nook and cranny of the amphitheatre (see RADIO...
...midst of the Middle East furore over Nasser, another veteran twister of the British lion's tail was heard from...
Twelve years ago, the U.S. launched the most elaborate experiment in veteran legislation in all history. Instead of bonuses, it offered its veterans an education. Last week that experiment passed a milestone, and an era ended as the G.I. bill ran out for the men and women veterans of World War II. Assessing those twelve years, and counting the cost ($14.5 billion), educators agreed that the experiment had paid off beyond all expectations...
Courses in Bartending. In addition to $500 sent to his college for tuition and books, each unmarried veteran received a minimum $50 a month for subsistence, and each married one at least $75. These allowances, later raised to $75 and $105, or more, were not much to live on, but the veterans managed. In twelve years almost 8,000,000 took some sort of training under the program. For those who could not qualify as regular students, Brown University set up a special school. Yale established an institute of collegiate study; New York State created Champlain College at Plattsburg. Such...