Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Amending Game. There are two to five million people illegally in the U.S. right now, he cried. D.P.s would add to unemployment, take housing away from veterans, jeopardize the economy (actually, veteran and labor organizations were behind the bill). Besides, said McCarran, there would be only 11,000 "real" displaced persons left by June; the rest were "criminals, the diseased and those who cannot possibly take care of themselves...
Blue-eyed, brunette Ellen Raphael Knauff, 35, is the German-born war bride of a U.S. Army combat veteran. She is also an anti-Nazi who fled Germany and served as a wartime sergeant in the British WAAF. But she has not been able to gain admission to the U.S. When she came to Ellis Island 20 months ago, the Department of Justice's immigration service excluded her as a security risk, without revealing the evidence against her or giving her a hearing. Last January, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the exclusion order without requiring the Department of Justice...
...authors (both veteran newsmen) have failed to meet the minimum standards of a search for the truth. The first half of the book--dealing with the pre-1948 activities of Hiss and Chambers--falls down for the simple reason that the authority for most of the information is one man: Whittaker Chambers. A Federal jury in New York accepted Chambers' testimony in convicting Hiss of perjury; this writer does not challenge the verdict. But the jury's decision does not mean that one must accept on faith every statement that Chambers had made in and out of court...
Liebman accomplishes his production miracles by working with a veteran team, many of whom have followed him from summer theater to Broadway (The Straw Hat Revue, Tars and Spars, Make Mine Manhattan), "We're hep," he explains. "We simplify things by avoiding too many props and cutting down on un-essentials like sound effects. We lose very little time...
Drumming Up Business. Largest stockholder in Safeway is Charles Merrill of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane. But Ling Warren has a free hand in tending store. A onetime lumberman and veteran chain-store operator before he became Safeway president 16 years ago, Warren now delegates enough authority to his staff to work only 35 hours a week...