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Hoover orders troops to end bonus march violence in Washington
Washington unrest erupts as veterans and rioters clash with police during the bonus march crisis. President Hoover deploys 3,000 soldiers from Mort Myer to clear camps near Anacostia, then veterans relocate to Johnstown. Debates rise over relief funding and a new board composition with Atlee Pomerene and Charles Miller appointed to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Bont
Marchet
Washington
Pomerene
Miller
R. I. C. Board
Hoover
Mort Myer
Anacostia
Potomac
Arary
Johnstown
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Dugene Meyer
Atlee Pomerene
Ohio
Teapot Dome
Senate Banking Committee
Charles A. Miller
Utica
Pomerone
Harvey Couch
Pine Bluff
Ark
Jesse Jones
Houston
Texas
Wilson McCarthy
Salt Lake City
Utah
Seecretary Mills
The
Treasury
C. A. Miller
Gardner Cowles
Des Moines
Iowa
Rainey
Ilinois
House
Hmnois
Chicago
Emmerson
Moore
Merbert Hoover
Franklin LD. Roonevelt
National Economy League
New York
League
Calvin Coolidge
Alfred 8. Smith
Dilhy Root
Newton D. Baker
John J. Pershing
William Sims
Congress