Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine, $12,000,000; Nevada, $1,771,846. According to the Legion, businessmen in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Maine, Nevada would profit in direct ratio to the spendings of Legionaries in their States. The mathematical argument for the Bonus is less simple. In 1924 Congress figured that veterans were entitled to $1 a day extra for service in the U. S., $1.25 overseas. Then Congress pretended that the whole sum had been set aside and invested as an endowment insurance policy to mature in 20 years. Thus with interest at 4% the sum was doubled by maturity...
...close to the car gave an ominous shout. Without waiting to hear what it was they seized and pinioned him, marched him away. All he had shouted was "We want the Bonus!" Police later established that his name was John Alferi, that he was a 47-year-old war veteran from Los Angeles, that he had a pass to the Senate gallery signed by Huey Long. Released, he returned to the Capitol to tell reporters: "I think Roosevelt is a good guy. I didn't mean to start anything. When I get my bonus I'm going...
...Harvard will be well represented by Cedric E. Francis '37, who took fifth place in a recent intercollegiate contest at Lake Placid, and by Brooks and Emerson. For the slalom, a form of race in which a tortuous course is steered down an open slope between prescribed markers, the veteran group of Carter, Maclaurin, and Rogers will undertake the point making...
...fate of the other grid coaches now on the Harvard staff, was considered as highly improble that Jimmy Knox, veteran Jayvee coach, could be found a place in the Harlow scheme. Knox is expected to take over some phase of intramural football...
Spotting their Crimson opponents five handicap goals the veteran White Mountain Polo Ranchers drove to a 16-8 victory over the Harvard Varsity at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday...