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...demands for immediate cash payment of the $1,000 bonus due 1965 as Veterans of Future Wars are in full accordance with the sound economic principles and just precedents established by the older veterans' organizations," said Rolf Kaltenborn '37, who has been appointed Post Commander in an interview last night...
...rising generation, carry on the torch of patriotism which the American Legion has borne so successfully in the past," he continued. "The recent passage of the Soldier's Bonus in Congress has proven that no longer is our government subject merely to individual selfish pressure but to just and rightful demands of deserving groups...
...America for Americans" is the fine new demand made to all patriotic Freshmen yesterday by the Veterans of Future Wars in a "manifesto" followed by a petition pledging support. Besides the retroactive bonus demand, the manifesto threw open the Home Fire Division (burning not shooting) of the V.F.W. to all mothers or future mothers of male children who, they naturally demand, must be sent to France immediately as partial compensation for the inevitable loss of their future husbands...
...father, a Louisville, Ky., tobacco merchant, nor Riggs's, a onetime Governor of Alaska, entered any objection to their offsprings' activity. Princeton's William Starr Myers, official Historian of the Republican Party, solemnly pronounced the scheme "a very constructive movement." At Columbia the Spectator launched a Bonus campaign. At Chicago undergraduates promptly set up "Fort Dearborn Post No. 1," declared: "We will make the world safe for hypocrisy!" At Vassar an auxiliary called "Association of Gold Star Mothers of Future Veterans" (later changed under public pressure to "Home Fire Division") demanded free transportation to Europe "to view...
Brig. General Pelham Davis Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police during the 1932 Bonus March (TIME, Aug. 8, 1932), began a 90-day reorganizing job as police chief of Phoenix, Ariz., where he has run a small wheat & alfalfa ranch since his retirement from Washington three months after the Bonus Marchers withdrew...