"FATHER COX UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF BALL" TICKET.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:00:00 AM)
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Auction #204 - Part I
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Item Description
3x6" stiff card apparently representing a ticket although we aren't sure if for an actual fund raising event or if satirical in nature. Only other text is his name, "Proportionate Distribution $50,000,000 (basis)/One Hundred Awards." c. 1932 when Father Cox, a Pittsburgh priest led a large group of unemployed to Washington to take part in the protests which were staged to get Congress to pay the promised bonus to (largely unemployed) WWI veterans immediately rather than in 1945 as the legislation passed in 1924 had stipulated. See Bonus March buttons #476-477. Exc. From the Morry Greener Collection.
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