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Bonus Army

July 26, 2017July 25, 2017 by Spencer Howard, posted in Presidency

In late June, 1932, a few hundred unemployed World War I veterans boarded freight trains in Portland, Oregon.  Out of work and overwhelmed by the Depression, they had decided to go to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress for early payment of a soldier's bonus that was scheduled to be paid in 1945.  Along the way … Continue reading Bonus Army

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