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...very little disorder. Hotels as a precaution stripped their lobbies of furniture and planked over their skylights. Boston's Mayor Curley was disturbed at 3 a. m. by two intoxicated legionaries who kept putting their heads out of the window on the floor below and shouting: "We want Bonus!" Finally he doused them with a pitcher of ice water and the remark: "There's a bonus for you." Special agents sent from Washington raided five headquarters in two days, seized a good supply of liquor. Members of the gist Division, incensed, wired a protest to Washington, began to campaign against...
Behind such familiar externals this year's meeting was different. The rank & file of the Legion's million members are feeling the pinch of hard times. They, as veterans, think the Government owes them something. They have collected 50% on their Bonus certificates as loans. Now they want the balance. With the instinct of buck privates they are tired of being led by well-to-do officers who seem to be taking orders from the White House. Organized originally as an explicitly non-political body, they have, through the exhortations of ambitious leaders and the promises of office-seeking politicians...
...Bonus resolution was adopted by a vote...
...year with the A. E. F. in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Large (220 lb.), bald, jovial, a Mason. Elk, Shriner. Odd Fellow, he is married, has two daughters, is rated a "good fellow." He will have no qualms about the state of the Treasury while pressing the Legion's bonus fight before Congress...
...angina pectoris. His doctor said, "It would be absolute suicide for him to continue his tour." Few days later, recuperating in his Bronx home, Candidate Foster wryly reminded reporters of a noteworthy fact: "Today I bear the unique distinction of being the only candidate supporting payment of the Bonus." Asked if he was pleased to find the Red-hating American Legion's view in accord with his own, Comrade Foster appeared irritated...