Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perceptible within the Hoover Administration last week was a growing resistance to this veterans' pressure. Chairman Will Wood of the House Appropriations Committee railed against the mounting costs of "War Relief." Before the National Red Cross meeting appeared Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, with a bundle of statistics designed to shame veterans out of their demand. He showed that since the first pension bill in 1789 the Federal Government has paid out about 13 billion dollars for veteran relief, of which more than five billions went to World War men. The U. S. he said is now spending...
...half. "This race will be a gamble," Farrell stated yesterday; "Penn will be strong." Shea, Northeastern star who broke the college 440-yard record last week with a 50 2-5 second time, will run on the Huskies' sprint medley four. M. I. T. will have only one veteran, Jewett, on its quartet...
...during the last eight years Congress has shaved $413,000,000 off the economical estimates of the White House. Bur President Hoover, with a larger aspect of economy in mind, was really driving against initiation by Congress of new laws which create new expenses, against more farm relief, more veteran relief, more unemployment relief...
...pitching berth this afternoon with W.H. MacHale '31 ready for relief work, while S.L. Batchelder '31 is to be the starting backstop. Of the nine men, starting, all but one are lettermen, a fact that may lend an element of coordination which indoor practice has not allowed. With a veteran battery available, it is also possible that Mitchell will depart from his usual custom of working two pitchers four or five innings in the opening game, and will have Devens go the entire distance...
Since the CRIMSON has received so many letters on this same subject it feels sure that this communication from the "Veteran" expresses the universal opinion adequately...