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World's Heroes Are Guests of the Legion
The Legion hosts foreign guests at its Midwest convention with Italian General Armando Diaz presenting a replica of the Mount Grappa statue. Foch arrives with General Pershing. Vice President Coolidge speaks as crowds cheer. Enormous attendance estimated at 80,000 to 100,000 with lively West Coast style revelry and a large Women’s Auxiliary opening tomorrow.
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Legion
John G. Emery
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Armando Diaz
Mount
Grappa
Marshal Foch
General Pershing
Washington
Foch
Coolidge
Middle West
East
Kansas City
Women’s Auxiliary
Red Cross
Clarence R. Edwards
Boston
General Edwards
Massachusetts
Emery
Schuman-Heink
John W. Inner
Chattanooga
Tenn
James W. Cowgill
Harry F. Parker
Department of Missiouri
Cowgill
Missouri
Parker
Senate
Harding
Vermont
Henry Shay
Fall River Post
American Federation of Labor
George L. Berry
International Printing Pressmens’ Union
Berry
Frederick W. Galbraith
James T. Duane
Leo Spillane
Col. I.¥. J. Herbert
P. H. Dupuis
Henry W. Shay
New Orleans
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