At 9:00 PM, MacArthur sent troops to Anacostia Flats where 10,000 people lived in a makeshift camp. Many veterans had brought ...

The Bonus Army became a problem for Hoover and congressional leaders as local authorities grew tired of an estimated 30,000 people camping out in their streets and squatting in city buildings.

The Bonus Army protests of 1932 led to the GI Bill more than a decade later. Vietnam veterans not only protested the war in Southeast Asia, but two veterans—Sens. John McCain and John Kerry ...

The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history.. It involved as many as 30,000 mostly unemployed veterans who converged on Washington, D.C. in the spring and summer of 1932 to ...

Deacon Truax, from Holt, Michigan, is surprised by the return from deployment of his bonus dad, Army Reserve staff sergeant Anthony Almazan.

The veterans would eventually receive their bonus — which LaLande said ranged from $500 to $600 — four years later in 1936. That would amount to between $11,000 and $13,000 per person in 2023.

The pay bump was due to begin next Tuesday, but Army officials said that all the details of the bonus had never been sorted, inevitably leading to pay errors if the program was rushed.

The telecom titan recently announced $1,000 bonuses for 200,000 U.S. employees, while others were laid off 12/27/2017 21:33 UTC Disney uses its promised $1,000 employee bonus as leverage over ...

In 1932, Hoover's attack on the Bonus Army awakened America to his heartlessness. Will Trump's New York rally do the same? Hiltzik: How Herbert Hoover's blunder got FDR elected - Los Angeles Times ...