New Legion Head Mason City Man Is Named National Commander
Mason City Iowa selects Mason City native Hanford MacNider as the new National Commander of the American Legion. At 34 he becomes the youngest to hold the post and is praised as a natural leader who will keep the Legion lean and American while supporting veterans and the disabled. MacNider served as a lieutenant colonel in World War I, wounded at St Mihiel, and later worked as an investment banker before his Legion leadership.
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Legion
Messige
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
MaccNidetto
Harvard University
Iowa Infantry
United States
Fort Snelling
France
Ninth Infantry
St. Mihiel
MacNider Fe
Masor City
Legh
Kansas City
Marshal Foch
America
Washington
New York
Kanesne City
Main Street
George F. Kearny
American Legion Post
Malltavy
Paul
Poblins
Rome
Pau
Mellin
Alexandria
Castor
Pollux
Syracuse
Puteol
Appul Forum
Fureoll
God
Haman
Corinth
Pest
Head of Legion Auxiliary Mrs Lowell F Hobart Leads War Mothers
Cincinnati’s Mrs Lowell F Hobart, first national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, guided wartime service with her son at Camp Zachary Taylor. She led a vast organization of about 125,000 members, composed of mothers wives sisters and children of ex service men, building from 3,000 in the prior year.
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Lowell F. Hobart
Cincinnati
American Legion Women's Auxiliary
Camp Zachary Taylor
Kentucky
Red Cross
Hobart
The
Legion Auxilary
Bridget and the housekeeper argue over references
The pew servant Bridget and the mistress of the house clash over supplied references. Bridget insists the documents are the best the old fool would offer, while the woman remains doubtful and wary.
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Bridget
Amerean Legion Weekly
Practice Makes Perfect in Wartime Jest
A light wartime quip from American Legion Weekly playfully accuses a grocer of profiteering, with a punchy exchange showing mock military seriousness. The banter centers on wartime behavior and lighthearted self‑deprecation.
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Burns
Stevo
American Legion Weekly
Lemper elected national adjutant of American Legion
Lemper of Seattle Washington has been elected national adjutant of the American Legion for his term. Yellow Medicine county Minnesota becomes the tenth county to designate American Legion Day as a regular event of its county fair.
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Seattle
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The
American Legion
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Yellow Medicine
Minnesota
The American Legion News and War Memory Notes
December issue highlights Miniéapolis hospital veterans, Franco-American burial stories, Kansas City convention, Marshal Foch remarks, Lincoln policing plan, and growth of American Legion posts. It notes 480,000+ U S war dead bodies, post reforms, and the Legion flower shift to the daisy. Also includes a biblical lesson text on Paul in Rome and related topics.
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Lagat
Rome
Christ
Paul
Oeior
NERA
Paaul
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Legion Auxiliary
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Gunmar Dali
Dasvid ‘Thor
Pals
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New Orleans
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Washington, D. C
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