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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addressed to 600,000 men who served in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps during the War. So was the payment of the second bonus begun. So far, about 2,000,000 applications have been filed. Of these, 400,000 were returned because not properly made out (lacking signatures, etc.). Only about 15,000 applications were disallowed on the grounds that there was no valid claim. It is estimated that there are some 1,000,000 veterans of the Army alone who have not applied for their bonuses. The applications are coming in in increasing numbers, at a present rate...
...review actually approved. A peculiar use or unsuspected ignorance of the correct and artistic method of including erroneous impressions in the same paper with only too obvious conclusions: e. g. "black is not white," "my humble nothingness," "I am not a good critic," "I am not blase," etc., etc., reveals that the critiques are native and quite harmless. Proof: advertisements of plays reviewed appear regularly side by side with these learned literary compositions--that's why they are native. But ah! the glory of success! I discovered one in this A. M.'s Crimlisten: "The humor of the play, which...
...state laws are unequal, some are inadequate and a great many are full of loopholes in the form of exceptions, etc...
Public Buildings, etc...
...soldier has still to be recruited. Instead of loot, he is promised a voyage to parts of the great outside world. He is shown on dazzling posters the life that may be his when he is off duty. Looting is not mentioned, as are not drill, fatigues, button-cleaning, etc. In most armies, in fact, looting is a crime...