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...piece of legislation regularly originated and sponsored by an elected representative of the people of the U. S. Actually, it is child & chattel of the American Legion. Of that fact, in the final hearings before the Committee vote last week, the Legion's Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. and its No. 1 Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor made no bones. "Our bill," said they, and "the American Legion ... its bill. . . ." But when the question came up of how to raise the $2,137,975,157 called for by the bill, Lobbyist Taylor modestly referred that problem to the House Appropriations...
...time when he was trying to silence enthusiastic friends and admirers. You do not picture him in such a pose, because you think a casual observer will think he were a Fascist or a Nazi. Why do you not come right out in the open and say Belgrano is Fascist? You do not dare, because you know it is untrue. Still you seek to create that as an impression...
...have greater earning power than the average citizen (an indiscreet admission by the American Legion Weekly). Hence, by inference they needed no Bonus. Insulted, the Legionaries at Miami promptly made an outright demand for immediate payment of their Bonus in cash. To get immediate action they elected Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. of San Francisco to be their national commander (salary: $9,000). After the War, through which he served in the U. S., emerging a second lieutenant, Frank Belgrano went into his father's business, the Banca Popolare Fugazi of San Francisco. He was cashier of that bank...
...passage. For the Senators committed themselves against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill. To compromise before it is necessary would only weaken their bargaining position. But the fiction of bonus bookkeeping will come in very handy. By tinkering with it Congressmen will be able to justify almost any figure they want...
TIME erred. Of the 20 (including two honorary) national commanders of the Legion, four never got to France during the War: Paul V. McNutt, Osee Lee Bodenhamer, Edward A. Hayes, Frank N. Belgrano Jr. Commander's salary...