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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
The World War Adjusted Compensation Act, or Bonus Act, was a United States federal law passed on May 19, 1924, that granted a life insurance policy to veterans of military service in World War I. It was based on aggressive political lobbying by new veterans organizations.
A tombstone promotion is an advance in rank awarded at ... Edgar Jadwin retired as a lieutenant general in 1929 and James F. Leys as a vice admiral in 1932, ...
The bonus was due in 1945, but the Great Depression created financial p ... D.C. in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand an early cash payment of a bonus they were promised for their volunteer ...
The Adjusted Compensation Payment Act (January 27, 1936, Pub. L. 74–425, 49 Stat. 1099) was a piece of United States legislation that provided for the issuance of US Treasury Bonds to veterans who had served in World War I as a form of economic stimulus and relief.
As Twain might have acknowledged, the comparison isn't perfect — among other differences, the Bonus Army attack occurred on July 28, 1932, in the middle of the presidential campaign, while the ...
July 28 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. Troops disperse the last of the Bonus Army the next day. July 30–August 14 – The 1932 Summer Olympics take place in Los Angeles. [3]
A tale of an early Jamestown tombstone. A 2021 study also led by Key confirmed the grave marker to be the oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States. His latest study set out to find ...