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Between 1919 and 1929, pensions to World War I veterans and their survivors increased by 866%. Veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Philippine Insurrection, World Wars I & II can collect as high as $250 a month. A veteran disabled in peacetime (while still a member of the armed forces) can collect as high as $187.50 a month. Long after discharge, a veteran totally disabled by such civilian misadventures as falling downstairs or getting hit by a truck can collect as high as $60 a month...
Others going or gone: 66-year-old Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-hoo") Lear, who fought in the Spanish-American war, onetime chief of the Army Ground Forces; Major General Charles P. Gross, director of the Army's complex and titanic transportation during the last three years of the war; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, famed wartime chief of the Eighth Air Force (see PEOPLE...
...examples of war drawings had the static power of Winslow Homer's famed Civil War coverage for Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine...
...told me that he had enlisted for the Spanish-American War and that, at its conclusion, the Army's discharge system was not functioning rapidly enough to suit him or any of the other soldiers in his outfit (where have I heard that before?). . . . He packed up and went home, like the others, without a discharge...
...decided to allow him to finish his three-year hitch, of which about a year and a half remained. He was a good soldier when I knew him and, so far as I know, is now drawing the pension and benefits to which an honorably discharged veteran of the Spanish-American War is entitled...