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  2. Veterans' Preference Act - Wikipedia

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    This act remained the basic Federal law for appointment preference until June 27, 1944, when the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 was enacted. Two significant modifications were made to the 1919 Act. In 1923, an Executive Order was created which added 10 points to the score of disabled veterans and added 5 points to the scores of non-disabled ...

  3. G.I. Bill - Wikipedia

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    The G.I. Bill, formally the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.

  4. Category:1944 ballot measures in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1944; 1946; 1950; 1952; 1954; 1956; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. I. 1944 Illinois ballot measures (3 P) This page was last edited ...

  5. Mustering-out Payment Act - Wikipedia

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    The Mustering-out Payment Act is a United States federal law passed in 1944. [1] It provided money to servicemen , returning from the Second World War , to help them restart their lives as civilians.

  6. United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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    The committee was created in 1970 to transfer responsibilities for veterans from the Finance and Labor committees to a single panel. From 1947 to 1970, matters relating to veterans compensation and veterans generally were referred to the Committee on Finance, while matters relating to the vocational rehabilitation, education, medical care, civil relief, and civilian readjustment of veterans ...

  7. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School , which had been evacuated to Effingham , Surrey . Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact ...

  8. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  9. Women's Army Corps - Wikipedia

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    WAC Air Controller painting by Dan V. Smith, 1943. The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army.It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), on 15 May 1942, and converted to an active duty status in the Army of the United States as the WAC on 1 July 1943.