Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who could not walk. Doctors & nurses gave first aid on the wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others were placed into trucks & cars, hustled to hospitals. The steamer went back for those who had refused to return early, found many of them ill. Doctors went to the Bonus Army's camp at Anacostia, where some leftover picnic boxes had been sent, treated a score of veterans who had eaten before being warned. That night more than 150 excursionists slept in hospitals, some 200 others were recovering at home. Food Poisoning- Washington's hospitals recorded the cases...
...bonus lies over the ocean...
...bring back my bonus...
...Robertson believed that the B. E. F., commanded by Walter Waters, onetime Oregon cannery superintendent, had blundered badly when it encamped at Anacostia, four miles from the Capitol. His strategy was close and continuous picketing to keep the Bonus issue squarely under Congressional noses. The first night in Washington his wayworn band flopped down on the plaza lawn, slept on newspapers after police confiscated their bedding. Next morning they trooped to the House Office Building to wash & shave. Soon thereafter Commander Robertson started them on a slow, shuffling march around the plaza that was to last four days, three nights...
...Bonus City's first baby was born...