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...Fifth Annual Convention of the American Legion (TIME, Oct. 22) closed at San Francisco. Before it closed there were several hot fights and a number of weighty speeches. One of the most vigorous struggles was over the bonus...
...anti-bonus faction was not large in numbers but it was strongly persuaded of its case. It was backed up in the midst of the controversy by a letter from the Ex-Servicemen's Anti-Bonus League suggesting that the Legion coöperate with it in a poll of the great bulk of veterans to see whether they really favored a bonus. The final defeat of the anti-bonus faction was as inevitable as complete. The National Commander announced his intention of plunging immediately into the Legion's fight for a bonus...
...declaration in favor of a soldier bonus...
...Hospitalization; 2) Reliabilitation; 3) Adjusted compensation (Legionese for the soldiers' bonus) ; 4) Americanization. All of them, according to Commander Owsley, have been measurably advanced during the past year...
...That the bonus will pass the next Congress with more than the two-thirds majority necessary to override the President's veto seems assured, according to preliminary announcements of the voting intentions of new members. But no one seems to know any more definitely how the money will be raised. The press (with the exception of Hearst and the Chicago Tribune properties) is as a whole antagonistic...