Hoover report urges VA shakeup for faster service and savings
The Hoover commission advised Congress to reform the Veterans Administration by creating a government corporation to handle the life insurance program and creating two major divisions for benefits and readjustment services. It urged transferring GI home loans to FHA and separating insurance from other VA functions to cut delays and costs.
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Hoover Commission
Veterans Administration
Congress
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Commission
Veterans
Veterans Benefit Service
Ultimate Tax Of 10 Percent Seen on Wage
Washington AP Arthur J. Altmeyer social security commissioner told the House Ways and Means Committee that expanded social security payroll taxes may reach ten percent five percent on workers and five percent on employers. Representative Curtis said a ten percent rate would raise about 12 billion dollars a year. He also noted a potential twenty percent rate could bring in about twenty billion dollars.
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Arthur J. Altmeyer
Truman
Rep
Curtis
R-Neb
Altmeyer
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury General Fund
Witness Tells of U S War Threat in Bulgarian Trial
In Sofia a witness at the espionage treason trial of 15 Protestant clergymen testified that an American official asked him to gather Russian military information because America is preparing for war against the Soviet Union. The witness, Christo Stratev, linked to slain anti Communist leader Nikola Petkov, was brought from jail to testify.
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Soviet Union
Christo Stratev
Nikola Petkov
Stratev
Cyril Black
Secre
American peace treaty debate referenced in Iowa trial
At a Davenport area hearing on the Soviet threat, Stratev testified that Nikola Naumov supplied military secrets after a meeting attended by Black and Naumov. The defense argued the talk urged war readiness against the Soviet Union, framing it as a political statement during the trial proceedings.
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AR Rapids
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Soviet Union
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Naumov
Transient in Jail for Throwing Money Away
In Los Angeles Carl Hoffman 58 was jailed after attempting to throw dollars to a crowd of youngsters police called him drunk. He claimed he only tossed eight or nine bills to amuse the boys. He defended the act saying it was just money.
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