Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack on Pepper's support of the welfare state and his sponsorship of the Townsend Plan ("a better plan than the social security act," says Pepper...
...University's decision to start closing all its temporary homes for married veterans reemphasizes the whole problem of housing married students. On one hand, veterans' groups claim that many families will literally be left in the cold, while on the other, students point out that the University never has satisfactorily solved the housing problem for non-veteran students' families...
Under the decision, veterans must withdraw from the temporary prefabricated units and three cooperative homes by fall, 1951. University officials state that the veteran population is fast decreasing, so that there should be no great need for housing at that time. They add that the houses, transported from Oregen at war's end, are now in poor condition and require heavy maintenance fees...
This move may well have been premature. While the married veteran population is indeed growing smaller, there is still a need for homes. Waiting lists for the prefabricated units remain crowded, and the American Veterans Committee reports that there are approximately a thousand families now living outside Cambridge; many of these would live closer if they could...
Although the University has always felt an obligation to provide veteran housing, it does not feel it has any like commitment to non-veteran married students. And the number of married students has not substantially decreased since the war: in some graduate schools there has actually been an increase. These families are not eligible for temporary housing, and, under law, veterans get preference in all other cases. The several University-operated permanent developments are not much help, since rents there are usually as high as those in private establishments...