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Claiming that "ex-GI's all over the country are rising from their peacetime foxholes to oppose the candidacy of General Douglas MacArthur for President," Boston University, MIT, and Harvard chairmen of Veterans Against MacArthur conducted their first joint conclave yesterday afternoon before a packed house at BU. An official VAM group was organized Wednesday at the University of Chicago...
...state universities in "an unstoppable wave" will result from GI Bill-stimulated demand for higher education if the guess of University of California President Robert Gordon Sproul turns out correctly...
...kind in the country, since a similar one is going into its second year at the University of Washington in Seattle. Designed to case the strain en veterans' wallets, the program was set up after Cambridge doctors expressed concern over the problem of protecting the health of the concentrated GI child communities...
...opponents, meanwhile, prepared to meet another GOP onslaught as the Republican leaders readied their new four-billion dollar tax-cut bill for a vote in the House today. Yesterday, the House unanimously approved a bill permitting holders of GI terminal leave pay bonds to cash them after next September 1. Congress also heard a message from President Truman, asking it to solve the "tragic problem" of Europe's displaced persons...
...latest blow struck in the name of the sanctity of the American way of life, the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently approved a rider which will prohibit the use of any GI Bill educational funds to Communists, Communist sympathizers, or anyone whose allegiance is to a nation "subservient" to Russia. If this should become law, no longer might American colleges be burdened with government-financed veterans who are subversive in the eyes of Parnell Thomas and other defenders of the democratic tradition...