The Veterans' Adjustment Act of 1952

Examples of The Veterans' Adjustment Act of 1952 in the following topics:

• The G.I. Bill of Rights

  • The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, known informally as the G.I.
  • On June 22, 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 into law.
  • The Veterans' Adjustment Act of 1952, signed into law on July 16, 1952, offered benefits to veterans of the Korean War who served for more than 90 days and had received an "other than dishonorable discharge."
  • Bill and the 1952 Act was that tuition was no longer paid directly to the chosen institution of higher education.
  • Bill to veterans of World War II and of the Korean War

• The Bonus Army

  • Unemployment during the 1930s led veterans to protest for cash-payment of certificates that had been promised to them.
  • The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—including 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
  • Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression.
  • The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945.
  • The Veterans of Foreign Wars pressed the federal government to allow the early redemption of military service certificates.

• Peacetime Politics

  • The act also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • In 1952, Truman secretly consolidated and empowered the cryptologic elements of the United States by creating the National Security Agency (NSA).
  • The parties did cooperate on some issues; Congress passed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, making the Speaker of the House rather than the Secretary of State next in line to the presidency after the vice president.
  • The minimum wage had also been increased while Social Security benefits had been doubled, and 8 million veterans had attended college by the end of the Truman administration as a result of the G.I.
  • Bill, which subsidized the businesses, training, education, and housing of millions of returning veterans.

• Farm and Rural Programs

  • The Agricultural Adjustment Act, one of the more controversial acts, attempted to plan and regulate the agricultural sector of the economy.
  • One of the New Deal's more contraversial programs was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which attempted to plan and regulate the agricultural sector of the economy.
  • The main point of the case was whether certain provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 conflicted with the Constitution.
  • In the Act, a tax was imposed on processors of farm products, the proceeds to be paid to farmers who would reduce their area and crops.
  • The intent of the act was to increase the prices of certain farm products by decreasing the quantities produced.

• Challenges to the New Deal

  • While the League's members were divided over the National Recovery Administration, they fervently criticized the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (calling it "a trend toward Fascist control of agriculture") and Social Security (which they saw a marking "the end of democracy").
  • The League's lawyers also challenged the 1936 National Labor Relations Act but the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality.
  • Supreme Court,  one for each member of the court over the age of 70 years and 6 months.
  • It also emphasized the importance of private enterprise and suggested that the position of unions was  too powerful. 
  • Smedley Butler, a retired Marine Corps Major General,  testified before the Special Committee on Un-American Activities that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization to overthrow the President.

• Adjustments at High Altitude

  • The partial pressure gradients for gas exchange are also decreased, along with the percentage of oxygen saturation in hemoglobin.
  • The main difference brought about by acclimatization that explain why it makes high altitudes more comfortable for the body is increased levels of circulating red blood cells, which improve the carrying capacity of oxygen by hemoglobin in the body.
  • This is an adaptive response due to erythropotein secretions in the kidneys (from lack of oxygen in the tissues) that act on the liver to increase erythrocyte (red blood cell) production.
  • Blood volume decreases, which also increases the hematocrit, which is the concentration of hemoglobin in blood.
  • The length of full hematological adaptation can be approximated by multiplying the altitude in kilometers by 11.4 days.

• The Fair Deal

  • The most important proposals of the Fair Deal were aid to education, universal health insurance, legislation on fair employment and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
  • Taft under the 1949 National Housing Act, which funded slum clearance and the construction of 810,000 units of low-income housing over a period of six years.
  • The minimum wage had also been increased while Social Security benefits had been doubled, and 8 million veterans had attended college by the end of the Truman administration as a result of the G.I.
  • Bill, which subsidized the businesses, training, education, and housing of millions of returning veterans.
  • Poverty was also significantly reduced, with one estimate suggesting that the percentage of Americans living in poverty had fallen from 33% of the population in 1949 to 28% by 1952.

• Toward a Welfare State

  • Aid to veterans, free grants of land, and pensions for widows and handicapped veterans, have been offered in all U.S. wars.
  • Congress followed with the passage of the 37 page Social Security Act, signed into law August 14, 1935, and "effective" by 1939—just as World War II began.
  • The Children's Bureau played a major role in the passage and administration of the Sheppard-Towner Act, the first federal grants-in-aid act for state-level children's health programs.
  • The Sherwood Act of May 11, 1912, was the first important U.S. pension law in the twentieth century.
  • Veterans of the Mexican-American War and Union veterans of the Civil War could receive pensions automatically at age 62, regardless of disability.

• Agricultural Initiatives and Recovery

  • However, in the aftermath of WWI, the agricultural sector began collapsing under the weight of its own success.
  • The legislation that aimed to achieve this goal was the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), one of the New Deal's flagship but also most controversial programs.  
  • In the aftermath of this decision, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 followed.
  • While initially the program was mocked by many politicians, it was one of the most effective and popular efforts of the New Deal.
  • Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (1936): Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production in order to conserve soil and prevent erosion.

• Harding's Policies

  • Harding signed the Revenue Act of 1921, which gave large deductions in the amount of taxes the wealthiest Americans had to pay.
  • Considered to be one of his greatest domestic achievements, Harding also signed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which established the framework for the modern federal budget.
  • On September 21, 1922, Harding enthusiastically signed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, which increased the tariff rates contained in the previous Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act of 1913 to the highest level in the nation's history.
  • In what he proclaimed to be the age of the "motor car," Harding signed the Federal Highway Act of 1921, which defined the Federal Aid Road program to develop an immense national highway system.
  • Harding subsequently pushed for the establishment of the Bureau of Veterans Affairs, later organized as the Department of Veterans Affairs, the first permanent attempt at answering the needs of those who served the nation in times of war.