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Show Me ft tmm LEW (Copr tor 1'hU Department Supplied kr th American Lirlnn Nawi Service.) WELL KNOWN IN HOME STATE James T. Duane, Commander of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Department, Known to Many of His Buddies. James T. Duane, commander of the Massachusetts department of the American Legion, tls perhaps better known to the Legionnaires Le-gionnaires In his state than any other oth-er Legion official. Ho Is snld to hnvo met moro than CO,-000 CO,-000 former service men 1 and women during the time ho was head of the military division of tho Massachusetts stato treasury department, de-partment, which had charge of tho distribution of tho stato bonus. When Mr. Duano sailed for France with tho Twenty-sixth division, he was a private ; when he returned to America Ameri-ca after participation In almost every major offensive of tho war, ho was tho captain In command of tho company with which ho went overseas as a private, no had nlso served ns a battalion bat-talion commander for n tlmo during tho Argonne-Meuso drive. Mr. Dunno has been a retail salesman sales-man In Massachusetts and Now Y-or)c, a member of the theatrical profession anJ nsslstnnt manager for an electric and gas company. During his career ls a state official, ho wns In charge nt the disbursement of $20,000,000 In grntultles to veterans of the war. As n member of the state welfare nnd post nctlvltles nnd state executive committees of the Massachusetts de-prrtment de-prrtment of the Legion, Mr. Duano wus Instrumental In blocking the proposed pro-posed transfer of ex-sorvlc mental patients to tho old Stnto Insane asylum at Worcester, Mass., nnd In Urn establishment es-tablishment of a permnncnt staff of teachers In the various Public Ilehlth Service hospitals. |
