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...Monroe County clerk got a letter from one Walter Sadlick, an ex-serviceman, who explained that he had married to get a bigger student's allotment under the G.I. bill, but that now, as his eligibility for benefits was running out, "we would naturally like to abolish the marriage...
...taken hot weather to pressure me to write this. Weather, hot or cold, grads, "dressed" or not, I think that the powers that be ought to unbend and abolish the timeworn "Little Lord Fauntleroy" ruling. L. W. Feasler...
...telegrams and calls from home districts began to come in, the Senate upheld Plan No. 21, to abolish the Maritime Commission and distribute its functions to other departments. On Monday, Taft stated that he opposed further arbitrary killing of the proposals. By Tuesday the Upper House had passed six plans in a row, including some with the very reforms it had voted against before. The other ten went into effect without Congressional action...
...Ohio's Taft, to give parliamentary privilege to one of the executive reorganization proposals which would automatically become law unless either the House or Senate killed it by May 23. The plan, not recommended by the Hoover Commission, but dear to the heart of Mr. Truman, would abolish the office of general counsel of the NLRB, whose present occupant, Robert N. Denham, annoys the President and union labor. Taft argued that the plan was just a devious trick partly to nullify the Taft-Hartley Act. The Senate went along with Taft, killed the President's measure...
...Schuman plan would establish a single steel and coal market for France and Germany, plus any other European countries that want to join. It would abolish customs duties and discriminatory freight rates on coal and steel. A joint international authority of the member nations would be set up to run the industries, with the specific tasks of 1) modernizing production; 2) supplying coal and steel to France, Germany and other members of the combine "on equal terms"; 3) developing joint exports to other countries...