Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, through the flag-decked streets of Cleveland last week tramped a veterans' army far greater than the Denver procession of 1883. Of the American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11...
Prominent last week in the Legion's parade, and looming so large in Cleveland that the convention seemed like a huge family party, were the Legionaries' wives. Robust Mrs. Lorena Harm of Wayne, Neb. was elected to succeed Mrs. Melville Mucklestone as national president of the Legion Auxiliary...
As usual, bibbing Legionaries were up to their traditional tricks-stopping automobiles and street cars for "inspection," tossing water from hotel windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of...
Bolder was the overlapping American Veterans Association, longtime foe of the Bonus. In a full-page Cleveland Plain Dealer advertisement addressed to the Legion, it roared: "Already the demand has been made in several quarters for pensions for all World War Veterans without regard to length of service, need or...
Mr. Clark has lead a long and strenuous life. Graduating from College in '74, he went the next year to the Law School receiving an L.L.B. in 1877. After a few weeks as a student in the office of Jonathan M. Wood, of Fall River, Massachusetts, in December, 1877 he...