Word: glassford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also by the end of the week General Pelham Glassford, chief of District of Columbia police, had almost exhausted his funds for feeding the B. E. F. General Glassford announced that after a benefit athletic show by Washington's police this week, the B. E. F. would be transported on trucks to points 50 mi. from the city. Meanwhile the march on Washington continued to swell in all parts of the land...
Meantime General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia's police, was concerned as to how he was to handle an invasion of jobless veterans. From San Francisco, Sacramento, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Evansville, Ind. came reports that independent contingents had set out for the capital. A detachment of 30 passed through Chicago from Utah. General Glassford had heard that from 70,000 to a million veterans would be in Washington by June 6. Together with Daniel Willard Jr., son of B. & O.'s kindly president, General Glassford called on Secretary of War Hurley to decide...
About the Capitol machine guns were nested in high nooks and corners. Policemen carried rifles and tear bombs. An ambulance stood ready in the background. Washington's Superintendent of Police Glassford, smoking a long pipe, dashed about on a motorcycle. When the marchers reached the Capitol plaza they were encircled by police. Except for these jeers and songs, all was peace and order. A committee led by Herbert Benjamin was permitted to enter the Capitol. Benjamin started to push into the Senate chamber. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry blocked...