| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Beginnings -- Monastery on the Hudson -- A New Officer for a New Army -- On the Border, Prelude to France -- The German Spring Offenses and the Allied Defenses -- St Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offenses -- Soldiering in Peacetime -- The New Police Chief -- Walter Waters: Glassford's Friendly Enemy -- The Bonus Veterans Arrive -- The Anacostia Flats Camp -- Painting the Bonus Army Red -- Pretext for Expulsion -- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished -- Whitewashing the Expulsion -- Aftermath -- Factories in the Field and Communists on the Horizon -- Sob Sisters and Busybodies -- Ranching, Policing, and Politics -- The Later Years |
| Summary |
"In 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression, more than twenty thousand mostly homeless World War I veterans trekked to the nation's capital to petition Congress to grant them early payment of a promised bonus. The Hoover Administration and the local government urged Washington, DC, police chief Pelham Glassford to forcefully drive this “bonus army” out of the city. Instead, he defied both governments for months and found food and shelter for the veterans until Congress voted on their request.Glassford's efforts to persuade federal and local officials to deal sympathetically with the protesters were ultimately in vain, but his proposed solutions, though disregarded by his supervisors, demonstrate that compassion and empathy could be more effective ways of dealing with radical protests than violent suppression." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2023) |
| Subject |
Glassford, Pelham D., 1883-1959.
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| SUBJECT |
Glassford, Pelham D., 1883-1959 fast |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- Biography.
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Bonus Expeditionary Forces.
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| SUBJECT |
Bonus Expeditionary Forces fast |
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United States. Army fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- New Mexico -- Las Vegas -- Biography
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Veterans
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New Mexico -- Las Vegas
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022058922 |
| ISBN |
9780826365071 |
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0826365078 |
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082636506X |
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9780826365064 |
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