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...their leaders to please the White House. At State conventions one department after another began plumping for cash at once. The cry for cash arose in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Texas, California and a score more. Speak ers against the Bonus were roughly booed to silence. There was money to be had in Washington and legionaries were bent on getting it. It was hard to make them see why railroads and banks could get hundreds of millions while jobless, hungry veterans got not a penny. Last week 35 States, controlling...
Hands Off. President Hoover has no relish for a fight in which he is doomed to defeat. Last week he was lying low, having abandoned all efforts to try to stop the Legion's stampede for the Bonus. He has a last line of defense?the veto. Secretary of War Hurley had announced he would go to the Portland convention, make a speech if they would let him. Last week the White House disavowed him as its spokesman...
Livest Lobby, The significance of a Legion declaration for the Bonus lies in the fact that it will unleash upon Congress the most powerful lobby in Washington. The Legion's chief lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat...
...Censure? More serious politically for Republicans than a Bonus declaration is the increasing Legion agitation to censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F. Such action would prove a distinct liability to him in November. Already eight States?Massa-chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Mary-land?have passed resolutions condemning his use of the Army. When Assistant Secretary of War Davison tried to defend the President's action before the New York convention, he was booed and hissed ?but a censure resolution was beaten...
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