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Old 08-17-2011, 04:07 PM
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[QUOTE=daveh75;136081812]Ok so here are my two cents...1932-Washington D.C.-WWI veterans demand payment of the Soldiers Bonus Act (passed 1924).\QUOTE]


Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each service certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment plus compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.
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