This bill selects a particular group of 75,000 to 100,000 men, makes provision for them in the most wasteful and discriminatory way conceivable and entirely neglects the equal rights to help of over 200,000 more veterans who are likewise suffering from disabilities incurred in civil life since the war.
Statement on the World War Veterans' Bill.
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It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.
I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.
These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.
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