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...system of home loan banks, before digressing to adopt (53-to-18) an amendment proposed by Idaho's Borah to inflate currency by $1,000,000,000 by issuance of National Bank notes on Federal bonds. ¶ Passed a House bill appropriating $100,000 to send the Bonus Expeditionary Force home (see p. 11). ¶ Adopted the Couzens resolution authorizing a committee of five Senators to investigate R. F. C. loans, determining whether they have been "in accordance with the law" and "adequately secured." Senator Couzens, committee chairman, expressed misgivings regarding the recent...
...past six weeks Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police, has served as the Government's grinning, good-natured host to the Bonus Expeditionary Force. The youngest Army Brigadier in France, he understood these tattered, jobless, hungry Veterans who without invitation had marched by thousands upon Washington. He helped them build crude quarters on Anacostia flats. He handled their scant funds for food, dug deep in his own pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington...
...stews were thin, the rain cold, the sun hot and politics rampant in the camps of the Bonus Expeditionary Force at Washington last week. Time hung heavy on idle hands made restless by malnutrition. Four radical veterans were caught selling Communist propaganda, turned over to police. Two more were hustled out of the city by B. E. F. "military police" who manhandled their charges on the way. General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia's police, having guaranteed equal rights for all, urged the assaulted Communists to bring charges against their assailants...
Within four days, leadership in the Bonus army changed three times. For the third time since he set out from Portland, Ore. two months ago as an unemployed cannery superintendent leading the B. E. F. nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued...
Curious onlookers and a special detail of police watched the B. E. F. drill, wondering if the new regime would stiffen or crack the B. E. F.'s morale, wondering why the men hung on anyhow, hoping for an impossible cash Bonus settlement from a Congress which had already denied it. Characteristic of the whole perverse, stolid affair was the new camp watchword: "Stick...