Bonus Army

American  

noun

U.S. History.

1. a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.

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Example Sentences

The ramifications of the Bonus Army attack live on.

From Los Angeles Times

For the attack on the Bonus Army and the Madison Square Garden rally share features that could bind them together as campaign turning points.

From Los Angeles Times

For Hoover, it was his response to the Bonus Army.

From Los Angeles Times

They started to move east — “hundreds of thousands of men, women, children, and babies ... walking, hitchhiking, hopping freights,” as Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen reported in their 2004 book about the Bonus Army.

From Los Angeles Times

Nearly 20,000 unemployed veterans, the so-called Bonus Army, descended on Washington in protest.

From Washington Post