Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soothe legionaries who were among the B. E. F., President Hoover said: "I wish to state emphatically that the extraordinary proportion of criminal, Communist and non-veteran elements amongst the marchers should not be taken to reflect upon the many thousands of honest, law-abiding men who came to Washington with full right of presentation of their views to Congress. This better element acted at all times to restrain crime and violence, but after the adjournment of Congress a large portion of them returned to their homes and gradually these better elements lost control...
...Pazaza may be an excellent spat salesman but it is very apparent he knows nothing at all about wars. An American veteran was an American soldier. Some of these Americans that Mr. Gerzzora refers to have walked right up and into barrages. Anybody who can do that has "guts," be he French, British, Italian, German or American...
...Amendment to the Constitution ("Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances") does not specify that Congress must be in session for such assembly and petition. 2) The Government buildings from which veterans were ejected remain untouched and unworked after five weeks. 3) Every veteran arrested as a rioting Red has been released for lack of evidence; three veterans indicted for assaulting police had good overseas records; not one criminal record has been turned up among the B. E. F. 4) Police Superintendent Glassford...
...Knock Outs. The National Economy League's principal attack is upon the payment of allowances to veterans not disabled in service. The Spanish War lasted 114 days and out of 300,000 men under arms, 5.547 lost their lives. In 1915. 28,912 veterans of that war were drawing $3,851,699 for real hurts. In 1920 the bars were dropped: any veteran disabled in any way or over 62, was eligible for a pension. Today Spanish War pensioners total 235,463. N. E. L. would lop $109.000,000 from the Government's bill by limiting payment to those disabled...
Fear v. Love. N. E. L. is new and un tried in the highly competitive field of national legislation. Not until it can pro duce a lobby as effective as the Legion's to displace fear of the veteran with love of the taxpayer in the Congressional heart can it succeed...