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Bonus Payment Ends Veterans Long Peacetime Fight
A brief history of the long campaign for veteran bonuses from World War I through the 1930s. It covers key events, presidents vetoes, and finally the 1935 immediate cash payment measure and the distribution of bonds to about 3.5 million veterans.
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Armis
France
Cleveland
American Legion
Warren G. Harding
Congress
Coolidge
Harding
Hoover
Washington
Roosevelt
Generalissimo
John Thomas Taylor
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