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...will gladden the hearts of some 3,500,000 U. S. Veterans. In somnolent and leafy Princeton, N. J. 200 miles away, another printer had just rolled off his presses the last of 250 smartly inscribed invitations which, to him and his customers, were quite as significant as the Bonus bonds...
Gorin's book is a good introduction to the manual of that new great youth movement, the V. F. W. In concise and unlabored prose Mr. Gorin explains the motives of the organization which he founded and the highly logical methods through which their ends may be achieved. The bonus for the Veterans of Future Wars is payable now, he explains. "There is no sense in going to war, as every true veteran of the last few years will tell you, unless there is some provision for living in idleness at the expense of the government for the rest...
Engraved "invites" have been sent nationwide by the Princeton front office. They read: "The national Council of the Veterans of Future Wars requests the pleasure of your company at a Treasury Raid and Bonus disbursement on Monday, the fifteenth of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six at three o'clock, in the City of Washington. Dancing in the streets from four until six. R.S.V.P. Formal...
...Support for all pension and bonus schemes. The League favors both the Townsend Plan and the bonus for future veterans...
...reorganize its demoralized police department, Phoenix, Ariz, last March hired on a go-day contract Brig. General Pelham D. Glassford, onetime Washington, D. C. police chief, made famed by his tactful handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. Last week frank, efficient General Glassford finished his tour of duty, reported on his discoveries about Phoenix vice in an extraordinary letter to the city's officials, ministers and social service clubs. Excerpts...