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Secretary of War Hurley carried his campaign for the Hoover recovery program flamboyantly into Tennessee. At Johnson City he was heckled and booed because of his opposition to the Bonus, his treatment of the B. E. F. When a policeman started to oust the heckler, Secretary Hurley exclaimed: "Let him alone. Let him earn his money. Such demonstrations are prompted by reports of the American Legion convention broadcast by a Boston ward-heeling politician who never saw the inside of a U. S. uniform. . . .? Yes, I'm opposed to the Bonus and I've got nerve enough...
...determine its Congressional friends and foes. In 1926 he was elected to the Senate where as an orthodox Democrat he took his place in the moderate Southern wing. A smart politician, he does the little things that help him in Kentucky. Though he opposed full payment of the Bonus now, he softened the enmity of veterans by authoring a bill waiving the requirement that their certificates must have been in force two years before becoming eligible for a loan...
...voted against: Reapportionment (1929), Republican tariff (1930), beer amendments (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus...
...notorious years ago for its greed in the matter of pensions, was thoroughly provoked with the behavior of World War Bonuseers. Its legislative committee flayed last summer's Bonus march to Washington, blamed "the insistent and excessive demands of World War veterans" for the G. A. R.'s failure to pass legislation upping Civil War widows' pensions. The committee then curiously added: "We assured him [President Hoover] the Grand Army, of all organizations, would not embarrass the President of the United States." A resolution endorsing full payment of the Bonus to members of the American Legion was unsympathetically tabled...
Hostility to the Legion's Bonus demand continued to flare elsewhere throughout the land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members...