The 1932 march of bonus-seeking veterans on Washington ended in an ill-tempered whiff of tear gas that embarrassed the Army's orderly Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, retired. Last week another indigent siege of the Capital, by 2,500 jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want...
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