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Show .1tlE ft LEGION (Copy tut i'nis Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) WELL KNOWN IN HOME STATE James T. Duane, Commander of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Department, Known to Many of His Buddies. .Tames T. Duane, commander of the Massachusetts department of the ' V - A I American Legion, is perhaps better known to the Legionnaires Le-gionnaires in his state than any other oth-er Legion official. He is said to have met more than 50,-000 50,-000 former service men and women during the time lie was head of the military division of the Massachusetts state treasury de- partment, which had charge of the distribution of the state bonus. When Mr. Duane sailed for France with the Twenty-sixth division, he. was a private ; when he returned to America Ameri-ca after participation in almost every major offensive of the war, he was the captain in command of the company with which he went overseas as a private. He had also served as a battalion bat-talion commander for a time during the Argonne-Meuse drive. Mr. Duane has been a retail salesman sales-man in Massachusetts and New York, a member of the theatrical profession an J assistant manager for an electric and gas company. During his career as a state official, he was in charge ef the disbursement of $20,000,000 in gratuities to veterans of the war. As a member of the state welfare and post activities and .state executive committees of the Massachusetts department de-partment of the Legion, Mr. Duane was Instrumental in blocking the proposed pro-posed transfer of ex-service mental patients to the old State Insane asylum at Worcester, Mass., and In the establishment es-tablishment of a permanent staff of teachers in the various Public Health Service hospitals. |