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Bivouacked in shelters at Anacostia Park, in vacant stores, in charity institutions, some 2,500 jobless War veterans announced last week that they would stay in Washington "until 1945 if necessary" to get an immediate cash settlement of the bonus.* While most of the B. E. F. ("Bonus Expeditionary Force") eked out a meagre existence from day to day on Mulligan stews and coffee, their leaders began to lobby. By the end of the week 145 Congressmen (the requisite number) had signed a petition to force a House vote on the Patman bill for immediate Bonus cashing. June...
Vienna is the most suicidal city on earth?58 per 100,000 (1930 figures). Next rank Hamburg 51.1, Shanghai (foreign settlement) 46.6, Berlin 42.2, Brussels 40.9. Havana 38.3, Budapest 35.7, Leningrad 35.3, Warsaw...
...Ivar Kreuger in 1929, suddenly suspicious at his haste in seeking loans, the number of companies he controlled, the big profits he reported. In Manhattan the protective committee, headed by Bainbridge Colby and with Samuel Untermeyer as counsel, passed a resolution asking the Swedish authorities to demand a cash settlement from Kreuger's U. S. bankers before a re-organization of either Kreuger & Toll or International Match. The committee continued to hint it would sue the U. S. bankers for misrepresentation, ask them to rescind the sale of Kreuger & Toll bonds. In Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish Match...
...Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony. All were War veterans with honorable discharge papers, all were jobless. By appropriating rides on freight trains most of them had come from as far as Portland, Ore. They hoped to get to Washington and demand an immediate cash settlement of the Bonus...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...