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Writer Stirred by B E F Eviction 4 The Era Echoes a War Return
Esquire Elsie Robinson laments the treatment of the Bonus Expeditionary Force veterans in Washington. She recalls 1917 cheers and 1918 sorrow, denounces government claims of faked records, and urges public defense of men who served America. She condemns hunger, neglect, and political hostility toward veterans.
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Sy Elsie Robinson
New York
You
America
France
American Legion
Portland
Oregon
Anacostia
Zonas
Washington
Hoover
Mitchell
Army
War Department
Veterans’ Bureau
Red Cross
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Farm Board
White House
Congress
Pelham D. Glassford
Glassford
Chicago
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