52–20 Club

(noun)

A provision of the 1944 G.I. Bill that enabled all former servicemen to receive $20 of unemployment benefits per week for 52 weeks/year while they were looking for work.

Related Terms

  • The Veterans' Adjustment Act of 1952
  • G.I. Bill

Examples of 52–20 Club in the following topics:

  • The G.I. Bill of Rights

    • Another provision was known as the 52–20 clause.
    • This enabled all former servicemen to receive $20 a week for 52 weeks/year while they were looking for work.
    • Less than 20% of the money set aside for the 52–20 Club was distributed; rather, most returning servicemen quickly found jobs or pursued higher education.
    • Furthermore, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) came under increased pressure as rising enrollments and strained resources forced them to turn away an estimated 20,000 veterans.
  • Environmental Protests

    • The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.
    • During the 1800s, the Sierra Club worked to create national parks, such as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.
    • The Sierra Club's most publicized crusade of the 1960s was the effort to stop the Bureau of Reclamation from building two dams that would flood portions of the Grand Canyon.
    • By 1977, there were 15 to 20 Greenpeace groups around the world, and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.
    • President Theodore Roosevelt and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.
  • Socialism and the Unions

    • These clubs worked to bring about Bellamy's predicted world.
    • In spite of this, the book inspired legions of readers to establish these Nationalist Clubs, the first of which began in Boston in 1888.
    • By 1891, it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.
    • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.
    • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.
  • The Campaign for Suffrage

    • Widely known as the "antis," they eventually created organizations in some 20 states.
    • Most often the "antis" believed that politics was dirty and that women's involvement would surrender the moral high ground that women had claimed, and that partisanship would disrupt local club work for civic betterment, as represented by the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
  • Political Participation and Party Loyalty

    • Both parties set up campaign clubs, such as the Wide Awakes, in which young men paraded in torchlight processions wearing special uniforms and holding colorful banners.
  • Women and Democracy

    • Sarah Margaret Fuller wrote "Women in the Nineteenth Century," an early consideration of feminism, and edited The Dial for the Transcendental Club.
  • The Roaring Twenties

    • When Harding took office in 1921, the national economy was in the depths of a depression, with an unemployment rate of 20% and runaway inflation.
    • Harlem also played a key role in the development of dance styles and the popularity of dance clubs.
    • With several famous entertainment venues such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club, people from all walks of life, races and classes came together in Harlem.
    • Duke Ellington led a renowned Jazz orchestra that frequently played the Cotton Club during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
  • Plantation Masters and Mistresses

    • While the term "planter" has no universally accepted definition, historians of the antebellum South have generally defined it in the strictest definition as a person owning property and 20 or more slaves, as noted by Peter Kolchin in his 1993 survey of American slavery.
    • Campbell classifies large planters as owners of 20 slaves and small planters as owners of between 10 and 19 slaves.
    • Moneyhon defines large planters as owners of 20 or more slaves and six hundred or more acres.
  • Social Justice

    • In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club.
    • Those voting "aye" included 36 (82%) Republicans and 20 (54%) Democrats.
  • The Cuban War of Independence

    • After deliberations with patriotic clubs across the U.S., the Antilles, and Latin America, "El Partido Revolucionario Cubano, or "The Cuban Revolutionary Party," was officially proclaimed on April 10, 1892, with the purpose of gaining independence for both Cuba and Puerto Rico.
    • In addition, Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Guam, in lieu of war indemnity, and the Philippines for a U.S. payment of $20 million.
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