Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first is merely to extend the old G.I. Bill. The second approach, Representative John E. Rankin's, is to provide for only half of the veteran's tuition 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...
Under the old G.I. Bill, each veteran received $500 a year for tuition, books, fees, supplies, and equipment, which the government paid directly to the College. In addition he received an allowance of $75 a month, bringing his total to $1,175 a year for an unmarried man. Monro said that under this system, with the Veterans Administration paying directly to the College, it involved a dollar's worth of paper work to buy a five dollar book...
According to Monro, the two bills would greatly eliminate the graft that was present under the old G.I. Bill by allowing the veteran to handle all his bills himself...
When Oliver Edmund Clubb, 51, retired from the U.S. Foreign Service last month, the business of his previous suspension and clearance seemed all settled and done with. A veteran diplomat who became chief of the State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, Clubb got into trouble after Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once (1932) seen him in the offices of the Communist New Masses. In the course of defending himself against this not very grave charge, Clubb produced his personal diaries. These contained very candid entries about the Foreign Service and about Clubb's colleagues. These convinced...
...World War I veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...