Veterans Question Box Answers on GI Bill and VA benefits
A veteran administration column answers four questions for former servicemen. Topics include switching from correspondence to classroom training after the GI bill cut off, eligibility of unmarried widows for GI loans, counting a spouse income in pension calculations, and a peacetime disability qualifying for a wheelchair home grant. The responses clarify regulations on post cut off date switches, widow loan eligibility, income consideration, and wartime timing restrictions.
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Veteran Administration
Haitian First Lady Finishes France Visit
Yolette Leconte Magloire, wife of Haiti president, concluded a two month trip to France and returned to Port-au-Prince aboard a Pan American World Airways Clipper. She left Miami on August 16 after arriving from New York with Leone Prosper, Port-au-Prince police chief, and other Haitian officials and staff.
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France
Yolette Leconte Magloire
Magloire
Haiti
Pan American World Airways
Miami
Port-au-Prince
PAA
Leone Prosper
Port-au- Prince
Stevenson Backs Anti Filibuster Rule And Civil Rights
Governor Adlai Stevenson told NAACP official Roy Wilkins in Springfield Illinois that he will back changing Senate rules to curb filibusters and push freer legislation in the House He supported a civil rights platform plank and endorsed FEPC enforcement measures He noted southern support for civil rights and commented on Senator Sparkman’s liberal stance and Senate influence.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Congress
Senate
House
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Executive
Springfield
Ill
NAACP
Wilkins
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stevenson
Ilinois
FEPC
Humphrey-Ives
Illinois
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
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Sparkman
Chicago dinner honors Dr Max Therek at NMA event
At a Bis marck hotel dinner in downtown Chicago a group of 20 leading Negro surgeons honored Dr Max Therek of Chicago founder and permanent secretary-general of the International College of Surgeons. The 20 surgeons attending the 57th National Medical Association convention presented a bronze plaque praising his courageous devotion to democracy. Shown are Dr Therek Dr Rivers Frederick of New Orleans and Dr Ulysses Dailey who joined the International College of Surgeons board of trustees.
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Chicago
Max Therek
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International College of Surgeons
National Medical Association
Therek
Rivers Frederick
New Orleans
Ulysses Dailey
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