James Montreal Gordon, a full-blooded Chippewa from Bayfield, Wis., paddled down to Miami in a canoe. The other 1,185 delegates and 50,000 members of the American Legion arrived in the Florida city by train and automobile last week for their 16th annual convention. One-&-all were in a peppery mood. Not only were the Legionaries smarting under President Roosevelt's Roanoke speech week before, in which he urged the organization to cease agitating prepayment of the Bonus and give the nation's destitute first call on the nation's coffers (TIME. Oct. 29), but many of...
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