WOMAN CHARGES BUREAU SUPPLYING 'SHODDY' FLAGS FOR WORLD WAR VETS COFFINS
New York City (JFK+50) On October 18, 1924, the Associated Press reports that the United States Veterans Bureau* has been attacked for "shoddy** flags" it is supplying for the coffins of veterans of the World War.
The AP says that Mrs. Lillian R. Sire "produced a flag" at a recent meeting of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs" which she maintained was made "of inferior material."
Adding insult to injury, the flag did not include a row of eight stars.
Mrs. Sire stated that this flag was one of 300,000 "contracted for by the Veterans Bureau."
*The United States Department of Veteran's Affairs, a.k.a. Veterans Bureau, was established by the Sweet Act of 1921. The bureau's first director, appointed by President Harding, was Charles Forbes.
**shoddy describes a badly made product using inferior quality materials
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In 1924, there had been only one world war. After a second world war was fought, the earlier war (1914-1919) was referred to as World War I. The latter war (1939-1945) World War II.
SOURCE
"Charges Vets Buried in Cheap, Shoddy U.S. Flags," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 18, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
