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Show WELL KNOWN IN HOME STATE James T. Duane, Commander of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Department, Known to 'Many of His Buddies. .Tnnies T. Dunne, eoniiminder of the Massachusetts department nf the Anioricun I.eion, "STV. is perhaps belter known to the I.e-WSi I.e-WSi iiionnnires in his jpjfc. A -state than any oth- fes J er Legion otlH'itil. f i .SSv ai He is salil to have ?t y met more than 50,- l 1,00 former service j j, J men and women 4 ''jar during the time lie fc " aW military division of ,he SIllssuclulseLU &""fcmKva state treasury de- partnient, wliicli 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 YorS, a member of the theatrical, profession au I assistant manager for an electric and gas company. During his career is a state official, he was in charge ir. 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. Dunne was instrumental In blocking the proposed pro-posed transfer of ex-servic mental patients to the old State Insane asylum at Worcester, Mass., and In the establishment es-tablishment of a permnnent staff of teachers In the various Public Health Service hospitals. |