Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack on Pepper's support of the welfare state and his sponsorship of the Townsend Plan ("a better plan than the social security act," says Pepper...
This December, veteran Jockey Johnny Longden began riding Noor, and talking him up as the horse to beat in the $100,000-added Santa Anita Handicap. Longden said Noor was "maybe the best horse I've been on since Count Fleet," winner of the Triple Crown...
...threatened last week by a routine Silver Theater show (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The half-hour presentation, His Brother's Keeper, unusual only because it was shot entirely in film, was the first example of a multi-camera filming method devised by Hollywood's short-subject veteran Jerry Fairbanks, assisted by Silver Theater Producer-Director Frank Telford...
...been missing thus far: comedy and comment. Less cutting and vigorous but still strongly reminiscent of the early Preston (Hail the Conquering Hero) Sturges, the movie delightfully sasses Army brass, a small town's home-front foibles and the windy patriotism of the professional World War 1 veteran...
Although the University has always felt an obligation to provide veteran housing, it does not feel it has any like commitment to non-veteran married students. And the number of married students has not substantially decreased since the war: in some graduate schools there has actually been an increase. These families are not eligible for temporary housing, and, under law, veterans get preference in all other cases. The several University-operated permanent developments are not much help, since rents there are usually as high as those in private establishments...