The first members of the Bonus Expeditionary Force (unemployed veterans of the Great War (World War I)) arrive at the National Mall, in the District of Columbia. The BEF is demanding immediate payment of their bonuses that were originally promised to be paid in 1945.
Postscript: Within a few days their numbers had swelled to over 15,000 veterans, plus two to five thousand family members.
[restored 7/2/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I of Amendment
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 328.
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