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The article reports that the Veterans Affairs Department guarantees a percentage of eligible beneficiaries for home-purchase or home-refinance loan and also allows lender to provide more favorable terms and lets the borrower make the deal without down payment. Details of scheme and eligbility are mentioned.

The article reports Mark Corbett, who is accused of issuing cash advance loans with very high interest rates to veterans disguised as interest free sales, has been fined one dollar by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Topics discussed include the judgement stating he had caused substantial injury to veterans by cheating them out of their disability and retirement pay.

Tweets, or posts from the microblogging web site Twitter are presented, regarding the financing options for small businesses and veterans, and advice on coping with social anxiety.

The article reports on the capability of mortgage loan companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to improve the efficiency and transparency of mortgage loans from government agencies Federal Housing Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Agriculture. It explains how the efficiency will lower the cost of mortgage credit to homeowners in the country.

This article presents information, related to socio-politics. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is under siege. On May 11, 1988, a Senate committee of the U.S., in a fit of misguided politicking, approved a bill that would place a statue of Vietnam-era nurses on the grounds of the memorial. The measure is based on the premise that nurses not killed in Vietnam are somehow slighted by Maya Lin's austere and beautiful design. Colonel Nicolás Carranza, an organizer and leader of El Salvador's infamous death squads, is quietly living in Kentucky near his daughter, according to an informed source who requested anonymity. Carranza, head of the Salvadoran Treasury Police in the early 1980s, oversaw the government's reign of terror in which up to 800 people were killed each month.

Advises that veterans who pay more than two points to refinance their homes are paying too much. Letters sent to lenders by the Department of Veterans Affairs; Efforts to make the two-point limit mandatory.

Reports that Mortgage Investors Corp. refinances mostly Veterans' Administration (V.A.) mortgages and increases their cost. Owner William Edwards, a veteran himself; How Walter Lincey fell for the pitch, which promised a decrease in monthly payments; How he wasn't told that the mortgage increased; Financial details of the company; Details on the mortgage rates offered; V.A.'s opposition to this practice.

The article deals with the inquiries received by the publication concerning the legitimacy of the Veterans' and Family Memorial Care (VFMC). It states that a client was offered to have his firm be the representative for an annual fee and they would in return provide referrals who need veterans' funeral assistance located within their area. Other propagandas employed by VFMC to entice customers are described. Also noted are conflicts concerning price and membership issue.

The article focuses on the improvement of the Veterans Home Loan Guaranty program for the veterans of the U.S. armed forces. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) urged the Congress to make several program enhancement including the increasing VA loan limits in high-cost areas to 150% of conforming loan limits and facilitating the refinancing requirements for veterans. The loan options offer significant benefits to military families since they are designed to provide favorable loan terms.

This article discusses the crime of voting against benefits for veterans on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. For something like 150 years this country has been accumulating, piecemeal, an enormous mass of legislation favoring war veterans, most of which was enacted in response to minority pressures. In recent years a number of persons,minority pressures. In recent years a number of persons, without questioning that the nation has an obligation for civilian rehabilitation, and certainly to those disabled by war or to the dependents of war dead, have come to challenge the notion that this public debt extends from here to eternity. In March, 1955, the U.S. President appointed a commission, headed by General Omar Bradley, to review that portion of the legislative crazy-quilt which deals with veteran's pensions.

The article reports on the symptoms of inflation as well as its impact on the American economy. It cites the 4.7% increase of consumer prices including food, rents, and medical care. It states the 71% of FHA mortgages and veteran loans. It elaborates that the continuing emergence of inflationary symptoms could stimulate the slowdown of the U.S. economy.

The article reports on the passage of the G.I. Bill of Rights that would give educational and other benefits for about 3,500,000 veterans by the U.S. Congress. The new law would allow any person with military service of six months or more to obtain 150 dollars every month while studying in high school or college and to be qualified for a home loan amounting to 17,500 dollars. Moreover, these veterans could also avail limited hospital benefits for nonservice-related disabilities.

This section offers U.S. finance news briefs as of January 1949, citing CBS's request for a 5 million dollar loan from Prudential over a 15 year period at 3 1/2% interest, a drop of 11.2% in rail car loadings compared to 1948 levels, and the payment of veterans bonuses requiring states to borrow money, 415 million dollars of which have already been approved.

The article reports on a new plan for veterans in Mississippi which provides private loans for the state purchase of property by veterans.

The article offers information on the applicability of partially guaranteed loan of ex-service men under Government Issue (G.I.) Bill of Rights to group together and form a big business in the U.S.

Photographs of a campaign billboard and poster for tool donations and war veterans membership are presented along with the Victory Center in Portland, Oregon which was erected for holding bond rallies.

The article focuses on the progress of cash distribution in accordance with the Bonus Act of 1924, as reported by U.S. Major General Robert C. Davis before the U.S. House Appropriations Committee in March 1925. Under the law, there are approximately 3.7 million U.S. Army veterans eligible to receive bonuses. There were about 500,000 applications that were returned to veterans due to failure to complete the forms.

Focuses on the U.S. veterans' struggle to get homes. Beginning of Operation Fireside, in which a delegation of veterans in new civvies called on Sam Bialac, vice-president of the Culver City Housing Corp.; Handing out of bitterly worded leaflets and throwing a picket line around some of the Myers Brothers building projects by the veterans; Reply of Ralph Lamb, the bank's branch manager, threatening to foreclose on the veterans' loans.

Presents political quotes published in various periodicals. Proposal by Lawrence B. Gibbs, president of the Home Builders Institute, for lifting of government restrictions on home-building by veterans; Description of the resort at Hot Springs, Virginia; Information related to the most expensive jewelry in Hollywood; Description of windmills in Batavia; Details of meeting of the Charter Oak Community Club.

Focuses on the bill for veterans' housing program. Impact of the program on private enterprises; Reference to efforts of Senator Wilson Wyatt for the housing program; Support provided by builders to the bill in the last session of the Congress; Shortage materials and labor; Discussion of the issue that families in between those that get public housing and families which can afford the ones private industry builds will want to know why the government can't build for them.

Presents feedbacks of several readers on several socio-political issues in the United States during the Second World War. Suggestion of a reader to create the post of a Secretary of National Security, ranking after the U.S. Secretary of State; Proposal of a reader that the federal government set up a central agency to lend money to veterans, who are in many instances having difficulty raising capital under the provisions of the GI Bill of Rights; Report that the Veterans' League of America sends the journal a copy of a statement made by their secretary, Leo Johnson, recognizing the work of conscientious objectors during the war, particularly in medical service.

Highlights the capability of U.S. President Harry S. Truman as the leading expert in the American government on congressional investigations of bad situations arising from the war efforts. Expectation that Truman would do his utmost to make sure that there is a real, exhaustive investigation of the Veterans' Administration, and that the faults uncovered are rectified; Complaints of veterans against treatments they receive in hospitals; Problems of loans and unpaid insurance claims for disabilities or deaths; Defense of the Veteran Administration of insufficient personnel to keep up with the work; Attempt of several senators to pass a bill in order to set up an investigating committee to look into the complaints.

The article offers information on the ending of the Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program (VHMCP) hearings by the House Veteran's Affairs subcommittee headed by Representative Olin Teague. It states that various factors disturbed Teague and other congressmen on the program of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower such as the discounted price of the VHMCP mortgages. It says that the program was possibly be ended rather than to be extended for a long period or instantly remove.

The article offers news briefs on topics including airworthiness certificate issued by the Great Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for transport helicopter S55, sale of veterans' bonus bonds in Oregon, Virginia and Montana, and price cuts announced by shippers at New England and Middle Atlantic ports.

The article focuses on the approval of 25-million U.S. dollars in new bonds issued under the California Veterans Bond Act of 1949.

The article considers the condition of the real estate business in the U.S. in 1952 as discussed at the 45th annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Realtors reported a decline in sales of new houses across the U.S. Also noted is the unwillingness of businessmen to pay for high rents for commercial real estate. The shortage of funds for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and mortgages of veterans is blamed for the housing slowdown.

The article presents information on a court case between senator William E. Borah of the U.S. versus Elihu Root. Glowing interest has been aroused by a statement in an article in "Foreign Affairs," regarding Root. The article is by Manley O. Hudson. He is a member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations besides being a professor in the Harvard Law School and besides having helped in Paris in 1919 to construct some parts of the Treaty of Versailles. Root suggested that the election of the Court's judges should be intrusted to the League.

A chart depicting a seven year drop in G.I. home loans in the U.S. during November 1957 is presented.

The article offers news briefs related to finance in the U.S. such as the triple rail merger of Eric Railroad, Delaware & Hudos, and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the querries of the American Bankers Assoication (ABA) on the lending activities of small and medium banks, and the decline of veterans home loan application.

The article reports that the U.S. House Veterans Committee has rejected the request of the Administration for an increase in VA rates that would match the five percent rate set by the Federal Housing Administration in 1956; instead, it approved a bill that would increase the maximum VA loans from 10,000 dollars to 12,500 dollars that the veterans can make in a direct loan.

The article offers information on the new Veterans Administration rule, which relieves the liability of veterans for GI loans on homes that they sell.

The article reports on the trends related to the mortgage credit sector in the U.S. It mentions that there are strong pressures for increasing the supply of mortgage credit which is expected to intensify as housing drops below its 1-million annual rate. It affirms that the increased supply of housing credit requires that veterans and active military (VA) as well as FHA loan rates be permitted to rise to levels that will attract investors.

The article reports on the results of the probe of the U.S. Veterans Administration regarding the fiscal anatomy of the buying homes of GI on government-supported mortgages, which revealed that veterans want long maturities and easy terms.

This section offers news briefs related to business in the U.S. in May 1956. Representative Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) and Representative Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.) of the Joint Committee on International Revenue Taxation revealed widely similar tax reduction plans, wherein the present top rate of 91 percent would be reduced to about 70 percent. U.S Housing chief Albert Cole has decided to cut some of the red tape for veterans who want direct housing loans. The Atomic Energy Commission has approved the construction permits for two major atomic power plants.

This section offers news briefs regarding developments in U.S. federal government that affect businesses. A Presidential commission led by General Omar Bradley has requested the extension of the provision of Veterans Administration guarantees and loans for the construction of homes. Electric utilities are trying to convince U.S. Congress to provide some relief from strict regulations of the Holding Company Act of 1935. The Civil Aeronautics Board might conduct a review of airline fares.

The article discusses the potential amount of bonus loan checks of veterans that automobile and radio companies are going to get, with General Hines estimating that 400 million U.S. dollars will be needed by the Treasury to make loans between March and June 1931 and National Cash Credit Association vice president Dr. Franklin W. Ryan stating that personal loans by the U.S. government will be larger than any other class of personal loans.