The reason I know about the cameras if I go to my after I exit the building: The day Boston and 6 other cities and towns were asked to "shelter in place" while all kinds of armed folk were searching for Tsarnaev, I was (defiantly, for me) leaving the building.
I wanted to buy my favorite french fries--other than the ones I make myself. The building manager was hanging in the lobby at the time. When I told him where I was headed, he pointed out to me how many cameras I was about to pass.
Didn't know about Milwaukee! Interesting.
I was familiar with the Bonus Army. Not mentioned in your excerpt is another General who participated in the brutal treatment of the World War I veterans--Eisenhower. Wouldn't you think generals would have had more compassion for desperate veterans?
A PBS program about President Hoover claimed Hoover had not intended for the vets to be treated so poorly, but the generals had misunderstood his intent. Yeah, I don't buy it.
I also knew about Labor Day and have posted about it on two separate Labor Days since I started posting here. (I think the least we can do is celebrate it on May 1, along with with the rest of the world.) It was fixed in September not only to disassociate it from the international movement but to disassociate it from the Haymarket massacre, which occurred right here in the US early one May. http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/haymarket/the-story-of-the-haymarket-affair.html
I saw the movie version of Grapes of Wrath on TV. However, I was so little at the time that all I remember is desperately wanting to help everyone in the movies, especially the character played hauntingly by Henry Fonda. (I seem to have been born with an overabundance of empathy. I remember my mother remarking on it to her friends when I was about 5.)
I did not know about the Dies Committee, either. I will have to look that up.
VERY interesting. Thanks again.
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