Word: vfw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for a lobby at the Massachusetts State House are being discussed, according to the word that leaked out from the executive meeting of the VFW yesterday...
...addition to the speakers, there will be both decorations and music. The VFW anthem which has just been completed, will be sung to the tune of the Vagabond Song...
With more than 200 posts in colleges throughout the country and a membership of 22,000 the national organization of the VFW has reached far greater proportions than ever was expected. The history and origins of the movement are one of the subjects of the "March of Time" Newsreel appearing later this month...
...Patman bill is scheduled to be brought to the House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported that the Legion and the VFW. having agreed to get behind a single bill with no mention of money-raising methods, had also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus bill satisfactory to the veterans will be rushed...
...roll was called on the Patman Bill the ten Senators who had voted to substitute it for the Vinson Bill flopped back to vote against it as it was approved 55-to-33. So Legion Commander Belgrano retired from the gallery in glum defeat. Commander Van Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could now be upheld...