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...foster the fair payment of federal pensions to war veterans, is inaugurating a Harvard branch. At a meeting in Dunster House on Monday night, J. L. Saltonstall '00 spoke informally on the aims of the League and the work it is doing to correct the wrongs of present day bonus exploitation...
President Hoover is prepared to lose a million or so votes by his stand against immediate cashing of the Soldier Bonus (and his sour remarks about the B. E. F.). For weeks his managers have been loudly demanding that the Democratic national ticket also declare itself on the Bonus in the hope of thus eliminating it as a campaign issue. Last week in Manhattan Vice Presidential Nominee Garner announced...
...made no statement on the bonus and I don't intend to make...
Governor Roosevelt continued to keep the country guessing as to his position. The Republican Press, swearing that the Bonus could not be straddled, flayed his silence as cowardly evasion. When newshawks on his special train asked him bluntly where he stood or when he would speak out one way or the other, the Democratic nominee waggled a playful finger at them and smilingly replied: "That's a secret...
...discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform as "swell," recommends downward tariff revision. Congressional investigation of the B. E. F.'s ejection from Washington, the establishment of local boards of ''patriotic citizens'' throughout the nation to pass on cases of needy veterans for whom the full Bonus would be cashed instanter. Observers sensed that his last proposal was a trial balloon sent up by the national ticket. Robert Low Bacon, 48, oldtime Harvard crewman, is the son of the late Robert Bacon. Ambassador to France and Secretary of State. He is Wet. an easy-going but dogged...