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Herbert Hoover's severe handling of the Bonus Expeditionary Force last year helped to lose him the election. For weeks while veterans gathered by thousands in Washington he shut himself up in the White House. Only when they began to get out of hand did he recognize their existence by turning U. S. troops loose upon them with tear gas and fire, by denouncing them as mostly Communists and criminals...
Last week President Roosevelt was confronted with a second Bonus March on the capital. His method of handling it was in marked contrast to that of his predecessor. Opposing prepayment of the Bonus no less firmly than Mr. Hoover, he used the regular Army to befriend the bonuseers upon arrival instead of to bedevil them upon departure...
This year's Bonus demonstration did not compare in size or spirit with last year's. Bonus sentiment in Congress was at low ebb. The Senate had lately rejected prepayment by a vote of 60-to-28. In the House only 26 members out of the necessary 145 could be found to sign a petition to call up such a measure. President Roosevelt's broad relief program detracted from popular support of a special class demand...
...prime demand of last year's B. E. F. was "Bonus or Jobs." Last week President Roosevelt deflated still further the bonuseers' purposes by offering them jobs...
...Last week another bonus march on Washington was threatened for mid-May. One Harold Foulkrod, agent for the "Bonus Expeditionary Force Rank & File," issued a call for 50,000 veterans. Foulkrod was repudiated by the leaders of last year's B. E. F. Last week he was ejected from the Senate gallery for applauding Indiana's Robinson...