American Legion warns on immigration and unemployment
Director Garland W. Powell of the National Americanism Commission cites a recent survey showing over a quarter of a million workmen unemployed in the United States. He argues unrestricted immigration would Europeanize the country in five years and urges presenting the true labor conditions to the nation.
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Garland ‘W. Powell
National Americanism
Commi Psion
The
American Legion
Powell
Europe
Coa
Jhst
War chest funds claimed by American Legion in Ohio
Gilbert Bettman of Cincinnati contends war chest assets belong to the American Legion as the sole veterans organization. The Ohio Court of Appeals awarded $115,000 for WWII comfort funds to the Legion, with distribution to posts by July 1 based on current membership. Bettman drives a 60,000-member push while a $25,000 memorial to F. W. Galbraith Jr. is planned near Cincinnati.
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American Legion
Gilbert R. Bettman
Cincinnati
Ohio Department of the American Legion
Legion
Bettman
Ohio
Obio
Court of Appeals
Ohio Legion
F. W. Galpraith, Jr
Ohio River
Legion chair of American history to be endowed at Pacific University
The American Legion plans to endow a chair of American history and patriotism at Pacific University in Forest Grove Oregon. A fundraising goal of fifty thousand dollars is being pursued. Since the end of the war Pacific has offered ex-service men reduced tuition to encourage college education and sustain the Legion chair to preserve forefather ideals.
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Legion
American Legion
Pacific University
Iorest Grove
Ore
Pacife University
PLAN RELIEF FOR DISABLED VETERANS WITH WAR RISK AMENDMENTS
Congress urged to enact 16 proposed changes to the World War I War Risk Insurance Act via the national rehabilitation committee led by Joe Sparks. The Legion seeks expanded coverage and protections for veterans marked disabled or indigent, including reinstatement of policies, extended service connection periods, increased burial benefits, and irrevocable disability certificates.
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Congress
Too Sparks
Nationnal Rehabilitation Committee
The
American Legion
Legion
Joe Sparks
Veterans’ “Bureau
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Veterans’ Bureau
Bureau
Perlon
Audi Dae Hent
Sings in York Post Revue by American Legion
American Legion members stage home talent dramas to lift spirits during WWI waiting months. In York Pa the 1928 American Legion Revue featured Nora Sechrast who sang the leading role in prior revues and agreed to star again in the 1928 performance.
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American Legion
Misa Nora
Legionnaires
York
Mies Nora Sechriat
A Rain Trap And A Barometer In A Drought Era
A distressed amateur horticulturist visits a shop and buys a barometer. The clerk explains indications and pressures while the buyer interrupts to ask how to set it so it can faint. This fragment from American Legion Weekly notes a curious exchange amid drought concerns.
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American Legion. Weekly
Fund to Buy Linens for Riley Memorial Hospital
The Marion County Council of the American Legion Auxiliary in Indianapolis unanimously voted to raise 2500 dollars for a memorial fund. The money will buy linens for the Riley Memorial Hospital for Children, now under construction.
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Marion County Council of the
American Legion Auxiliary
Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley
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