Last week the President also:

P: Installed his old Missouri friend, Federal Judge John Caskie Collet, onetime Economic Stabilization Director, as a titleless teammate of OWMR Boss John R. Steelman.

P: Signed legislation for a 20% increase in disability pensions for about 2,000,000 veterans of World Wars I & II.

P: Signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans.

P: Saw an advance showing of newsreel films of the awesome underwater explosion of Bomb No. 5 at Bikini.

P: Told a group of high school and college youths that the U.S. democratic republic is "good for a thousand years."

P: Vetoed a bill to establish a Theodore Roosevelt National Park near the North Dakota village of Medora (pop. 210).

P: Proclaimed drastic restrictions on 1946 duck hunting (under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act); among them: season cut from 80 to 45 days; daily bag limit cut from ten to seven; reason: too few ducks.

*He would not have found it in Webster's New International, but it is in the Oxford English Dictionary: derived from the Italian ingannare, to deceive.

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