Fourfold optional compensation plan in American Legion debate
Frank Oller, national commander of the American Legion, argues in the Legion Weekly that opponents distort the fourfold compensation plan by turning attention to revenue methods. He warns Congress must pass the measure before summer adjournment to avoid politicized money questions and harm to veteran benefits.
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Land and home schemes fail to fill frontier promise
An American Legion Weekly analysis notes a surge of ex service men seeking land in Wyoming and Oregon, finding few plots available and desert-like tracts. It criticizes the land policy as inadequate and warns against stampedes, urging better machinery to grant opportunities for veterans to build homes.
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America
Picure
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Argonne
County War Records Highlight Livingston Illinois Effort
A Livingston County Illinois committee of seven coordinated a county wide war records project. They compiled registrants who served, cross checked with exemption board lists, and published names in local papers. Questionnaires gathered discharge details and honors while a future section will honor soldiers who died in service with photographs.
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County Draft Board
Livingston County
Ilinois
War Records Committee
Hilton A L Legion Post backs members amid rumors
The Hilton U. Brown Jr Post No. 85 of the American Legion Indianapolis, largely made up of labor union members, adopted a resolution condemning outsiders pressuring members to drop or avoid joining the Legion over alleged conflicts with union memberships. It commends members who exposed anti-American agitators and defended free thought and action within the law.
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Hilton , Brown, Jr
Indianapolis
Union
Hilton U. Brown, Jr
American Legion
Igalanapolis
Emiliay WA. Brown, Jr. Post
Legion
Hilton O. Brown, Jr
Legion tribute highlights aid for injured veteran
J J Gater of Clarksburg W V recounts how his son served with the Porrlah post and, after contract tuberculosis left him dying, received medical care and back pay through the Legion's service division at national headquarters. The speech praises the American Legion for extending aid to brothers in need, as printed in the Potter Herald of East Liverpool Ohio.
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J.J. Gater
Clarksburg
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Porrlah
Mr. Gater
American Legion
Soule
Pottern Herald
National Brotherhood of Operative Potters and East Liverpool
Couny Cil
Wounded Private Sent Back to the Front
A distinguished visitor at a military hospital witnessed a severely wounded private from a trial regiment. Asked when he would return to the States, an orderly replied the man would go back to the front, prompting disbelief from the visitor about the private’s condition.
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