Army Chief of Staff and Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur watched a brigade of steel-helmeted soldiers precisely align themselves in a straight four-column phalanx, bayonets affixed to rifles. He nodded his ...
In this very romanticized depiction of a Bonus marchers 1934 demonstration, the artist and longtime labor and political activist, Sara Berman-Beach, attempted to capture the embedding clash between ...
Neither man ever accepted the Bonus Army as primarily a group of destitute, desperate, hungry men trying to support their families. The day's toll was three dead, 54 injured and 135 arrests. In the ...