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Show pusiness with Capital B P&fTackles Stupendous Job m By WALTER A. SHE AD I VVNU Washington Correspondent. N liwGTON A slightly built, grayish, baldish man fatigue uniform of a four-star general, sits be- . Idesk in the mammoth, block-long Veterans' ad-c ad-c K building- He is, without doubt, among the busiest txPh s one i f the biggest jobs in the world. II.- is Gen. wh M Rradlev. ndministratof of veterans' affairs. itoHwufiht with him to Veterans' administration the withBities for which General Eisenhower gave him equal with General Montgomery on the western front ' ar and which made him one of the most respected KLiBl- one of the ablest tacticians and disciplinarians I Lis for retirement. y accepted th. as-President as-President Truman in Zo a state of effl-badly-managed, over-raw' over-raw' administration . the last war and in red tape and bu-dley bu-dley took into VA his ss as a military leader, democratic action, for , l0yalty and discipline at for the G.I.s who niwar, thousands of dij direct command, mlines Agency, eamtaed VA; he has the administration commands. The Job most itupendous and s in the world today, adley is head of the al Insurance business with policies in force illion dollars on the Ave million veterans, i medical program ,000 doctors and cares eneflts and relief in mother for more than irld War II veterans, a master file of 24 35 or their dependents eived active benefits, i time, approximately ericans are veterans ice, VA has on its I list about 28,000 Kellys, Cogens, 2,000 Kominskis, Mies. From this tre- Dumber of former sen, VA has received as II million pieces of mail iradley heads one of the irgest loan agencies and, ry 1, VA had approved 9.200 G.I.s amounting to $3,421,000,000. Although of these loans were for farms, they ranged all rom the veteran who aper service in Spartans-, Spartans-, to the farm boy who purchase a new harrow esale Purchases, sing committee of tre-lagnitude tre-lagnitude is another of ies. This agency buys in for veterans' hospitals 000 pounds of breakfast e time, 144,000 pounds of crackers, 7,014 albums for juke boxes, 800,000 books for hospital li-ruary, li-ruary, 1947, more than 5.I.S were in schools or aining under provisions ML Approximately 385,-wsiness 385,-wsiness firms were con-Mob con-Mob training courses. G.I.s are obtaining edu-illowances edu-illowances for study in i, General Bradley ad-ension ad-ension and disability veterans, which run ons of dollars, and bur-which bur-which also run into the ms of one law, he than 6,000 automobiles Wees. He also directs supervise legal guard-todians guard-todians of about 141,000 children of deceased Payments High, kly six million veter-eceived veter-eceived unemployment )loyment compensation ugh VA and United tyment service, he VA administrative olch were at an ex-' ex-' ebb when General over, have been due snroom growth of its activ- '' will the nation be 1 nge pension lists? In 194fi. I made the final l 10 d ndent, closing on the War of 1812. nl8 stl are being made Pendents of .Mexican war While 916 veterans dep,,,,!,;, of Indian "'U are geiting monthly ibere ,,, u6 civil war ( With an average age mil sti" rcccivil,e jHned Bv Changes J1'1' aay that the peak of World ,Vetrans and depended depend-ed War I was not reached ,m'a.ntime. congress passes creat Chan6e those on the , ng new administrative J More than 200 bills af-ri af-ri J"5 Were introduced in H 0 mnths of the 80th immi3tering the VA pro-. pro-. fiscal year 1947 is ex-e ex-e Proximately 8 bUlion |