Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Live the King. There were few World War II veterans among the 3,400 delegates, fewer still among the 30,000 other Legionnaires who came along for the fun-although they outnumber World War I veterans two to one among the Legion's 3,000,000 members. In the battle to elect next year's commander, the old-guard "king makers" squelched a rebellion by the younger veterans, steamrolled serenely on to victory with stocky, bespectacled S. Perry Brown, 56, veteran of both wars and general manager of a Beaumont, Tex. building-materials company. It wasn...
...Next day the aging warriors voted themselves a bonanza. They whipped through a resolution which called for pensions to all World War I veterans and their dependents equivalent to those paid Spanish-American War veterans ($90 a month after 65). Then they passed another asking pensions for veterans of both wars-$60 a month at 55, $75 a month after 65. Such laws would add more than $1 billion to the federal budget right away; by 1985, when the average World War II veteran is 55 or older, it would cost more than $8 billion a year...
...latest contribution to American politics. The ladies have chatted mainly about the high cost of living, criticizing Governor Bradford for allowing price hikes on 400 necessities of life. On billboards and in Dever's own oratory, prices have been the central issue. But the Governor is against the veteran," one lady said recently. She went on to blast Bradford's vote of a bill giving civil service pay to gold star mothers and war widows, and his veto of a bill allowing paraplegics $500 yearly...
About 270 veteran families still reside at Harvardevens, and the Housing Office believes some 200 of these will continue at the University next year...
They are rich, creamy, and dark complexioned, and an expert panel of non-Pacific veteran tasters has pronounced the sweet definitely "eatin' stuff...