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...Campo, Tex, nine Negroes were jailed, and nearly lynched, for ending a wild Bonus celebration by fatally stabbing and slashing a white deputy sheriff...
...When in Manhattan a postman handed Bonus bonds through the securities windows of sedate J. P. Morgan & Co. to a group of joyous employes, a frosty executive barked: "We can't have all this uproar here," dispatched the postman to the tradesman's entrance...
...Manhattan saloon, thirsty Peter Gallagher borrowed $10 from the bartender, left $450 of Bonus bonds as collateral, woke up in a hallway next morning, his mind a total blank...
Despite the many newspaper tales of sots and suicides arising last week from the Bonus payment of $1,900,000,000 in black & green $50 bonds, the average Veteran played a watchful, waiting game. American Legion questionnaires had estimated that the 3,500,000 recipients would spend 30% of the money toward payment of debts and old bills, 7% for housing repairs, 6% for automobiles, 7% for clothing, the rest in a free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters...
...Edward J. Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having accepted the principle of social security." James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years in the newspaper business, Roy Howard has learned, like a movie hero's wife, how to be an office holder's best pal and severest critic...