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Show WHAT THE LEGION HAS DONE Established service station at national na-tional headquarters and system of cooperating co-operating war risk olficers in every state, thereby adjusting thousands of compensation claims for dependents of men who died or were disabled. National headquarters alone, which takes up only the most complicated cases that cannot be handled by posts or state headquarters, has settled individual in-dividual claims aggregating approximately approxi-mately $1,000,000, between November 11, 1019, and May 15. 1920. The American Legion was conceived in Paris, February 15, 1919, at a gathering gath-ering of twenty members of the A. E. F. Prior to the "Membership Push" It had more than 1.000,000 members in more than 9,000 posts throughout America and foreign countries, besides more thau S00 women's auxiliary units. How's that for a "youngster" fifteen months old? The senate recently passed the bill adopted In the house October 30, 1919, providing for the deportation of certain cer-tain undesirable aliens and denying readmisslon to those thus deported. This measure embodied principles favored fa-vored by the Legion at its St. Louis caucus in May, 1919, and its passage was largely due to the efforts of the Legion's national legislative committee, commit-tee, of which Thomas W. Miller is chairaian. |