Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President feared that the American Legion Convention meeting in Portland, Ore. would censure him for removing the Bonus Expeditionary Force from Washington last July. Therefore he ordered his Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell to draw up the Administration's justification. On the morning the Legion Convention opened the President published...
...probable the Bonus army brought to Washington the largest aggregation of criminals ever assembled in the city at any one time," declared the Attorney General. He reported: 1) 4,723 bonuseers who got travel loans from the Veterans" Bureau were fingerprinted; 2) of these 1,069 had police records; 3) 829 of them had been convicted; 4) of the convictions 138 were for larceny, 95 for drunkenness, 80 for old military offenses, 69 for vagrancy. Between a quarter and a third of the known members of the B. E. F. could not be identified as War veterans...
...Portland, Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, regarded as a personal representative of the President, was booed as he walked to the convention platform. He was seated as an Oklahoma delegate, thus being apparently obliged to join in voting for immediate payment of the cash Bonus. (The Oklahoma delegation was also pledged to vote for repeal of the 18th Amendment.) After a safe & sound speech on armament, Secretary Hurley was let off the platform with more cheers than boos...
...current Legion activity on the Bonus...
Last March one Ben Kerr, postoffice clerk of Gary, Ind. went to an American Legion meeting, introduced a resolution to cash the Soldier Bonus.* In May Clerk Kerr was discharged because of "political activities" forbidden by the civil service law and "contrary to the expressed wish of the President who considers [Bonus] legislation harmful to the country at this time." Last week President Hoover heard about Clerk Kerr's dismissal. He talked the case over at length with his Cabinet. Then he wrote to Postmaster General Brown: "I have never made any such suggestion as to this...