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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convention was in not too sober fact an all-time top in all respects. Total attendance, including families of Legionnaires, was 110,000. In six days, the 110,000 reputedly spent $1,300,000 on lodgings, $1,100,000 on food, $1,100,000 on entertainment (chief item, liquor), $1,200,000 in stores, $675,000 on incidentals. Reports that during the uproar in the Astor bar, light-hearted Legionnaires had killed the bartender by bashing in his head with a bottle proved unfounded...
American Legion's total income-about half from annual dues of $1 apiece from its 1,000,000 members-was nearly $2,000,000 for the year ending July 31. Of its expenses a major administrative item is $22,000 a year to the National Commander ($10,000 salary, $12,000 expenses). At least four Legion Commanders have used the post as a springboard to major-league political jobs. Hanford MacNider (1921) and Alvin Owsley (1922) became U. S. Ministers. Paul V. McNutt (1928) became Governor of Indiana, is now High Commissioner to the Philippines. Louis Arthur Johnson...
...somewhat plumper, a deal more amiable, will gavel to order his 13th annual A. F. of L. convention. There in the big grey municipal auditorium some 600 accredited delegates and a host of other labormen will assemble in what is still Labor's only national congress. The principal item on the agenda is the man who saved Bill Green from innocuous obscurity, and day after day, in the redundant, turgid oratory so dear to old-time labor leaders, John L. Lewis will be damned and double-damned for all the high crimes on the statute books of Labor...
Your recent news item about itinerant dentists [TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size...
...aside for the various class activities and funds, such as the Freshman Red Book, Freshman and Senior elections, etc., is $1000, while the expenses of the Council itself for the year consume but $300. The final item is $2000 which is used for the aid of undergraduates in the form of scholarships...