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Naturally Commander James E. Van Zandt of the VFW had as his field generals in the Senate not only the loudest inflationist, Elmer Thomas, but the loudest demagog, Huey Long. Legion Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. had Post-Commander, now Senator, Bennett Champ Clark as his floor leader. The two forces were opposed to each other because of rivalry, and because the Legionaire-Senator Clark, who is no end proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote...
Then the 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...
Only public figure to support General Butler's story was Commander James Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He said he had known about the plot all along, that he had refused to participate...
Though most of the country was again laughing at the latest Butler story, the special House Committee declined to join in the merriment. Turning from the Fascist putsch yarn to investigate Communism among New York fur workers, Congressman Dickstein promised Commander Van Zandt a later hearing in Washington. "From present indications," said the publicity-loving New York Representative, "General Butler has the evidence. He's not making serious charges unless he has something to back them up. We will have some men here with bigger names than Butler's before this is over...
Gertrude Atherton, novelist: " My book, Black Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people...