American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

“…At 4:45 p.m. on July 28, infantry, cavalry and tank troops led by MacArthur appeared on Pennsylvania Avenue, throwing tear gas and smoke bombs to suppress the protesters. At around 10 p.m., almost all the sheds in the camp were set on fire, and the flames rose 50 feet high and spread to the nearby woods. Uninformed firefighters from six nearby fire stations rushed to put out the fire.”

“It is reported that most of the protesters are veterans of the First World War with their families, with more than 25,000 people. They gathered in the capital Washington, waiting for and requesting government relief. According to incomplete statistics, the entire suppression operation is estimated to have injured at least hundreds of people, killed two veterans, and at least three children and babies suffocated to death by tear gas.”

Under the impact of the Great Depression, all walks of life were deeply affected.

Among them, of course, are the veterans who participated in the First World War. The compensation promised to them by the US government is their only hope to survive during the current Great Depression.

In World War I, American soldiers who participated in the war received an additional 25 cents as an overseas living allowance in addition to their daily salary of $1 per person. However, during the war, this salary was not paid to American soldiers who participated in the war.

However, after the war, because the US government could not afford this expense, the US government first issued a subsidy certificate to veterans of World War I in the "Service Certificate Amendment Act" in 1924, promising that the owed salary would be calculated at $1 per day based on the number of days in the army 20 years later, and then multiplied by compound interest and paid in cash.

This bill that owed wages for 20 years was full of calculations.

However, the Great Depression put the already poor veterans in a desperate situation.

In order to get compensation, these veterans brought their wives and children, wore old military uniforms, held the faded American flag, and either marched silently or spontaneously drilled and sang war songs.

Starting in January this year, they came to Washington and started the parade.

However, these protesting veterans never expected that what greeted them was not the government's welcome, but ruthless suppression.

In the entire suppression incident, in addition to President Hoover who gave the order.

The most eye-catching person was Douglas MacArthur, who was called the best "actor" rather than the general a few days later.

This four-star general once shouted "Old soldiers hey just fade away" in a speech titled "Old Soldiers Never Die" in the future Congress.

During the entire suppression process, he was ruthless and even dispatched tanks and cavalry to destroy the camps of veterans and protesters in a surprise attack, turning them into homeless people.

Douglas MacArthur himself was not affected by this incident, but instead achieved himself and became the later Army Chief of Staff.

As the media mocked: "They sent many equally deprived poor people to tragic deaths, thus earning themselves a place in history books."

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"We're here, Mr. Colin Luper."

In the passenger seat, the leader's words pulled Colin's thoughts back from the news in the newspaper.

He closed the newspaper in his hand and turned his head to look outside the car.

The huge sports stadium made his face reveal a little surprise.

Obviously, he did not expect that the boss's location in these people's mouths was actually the famous Polo Stadium.

In the stadium, the New York Yankees baseball team was holding the first game of the World Championship, and the sidelines were crowded with spectators who came to watch the game.

"Boss, people are here."

And Colin, led by the leader, walked through the narrow aisle and came to a fairly empty viewing area.

A middle-aged man wearing a custom suit, with droopy eyes and obvious scars on his face, sat in the center of the viewing area, smoking a cigar, and around him were several bodyguards or subordinates wearing hats, with obvious bulges under their clothes.

The man who could occupy such a seat to watch the game at the Polo Stadium, the home of the Yankees baseball team, was obviously not an ordinary character.

And the way he contacted the other party to send someone to invite him, there was no doubt that the other party's identity was not simple.

Hearing the leader's reminder, the middle-aged man withdrew his eyes from the baseball game in the center of the stadium and turned his head to look at Colin in front of him.

His calm appearance made the middle-aged man pull his drooping eyes a little unexpectedly.

Then he took a puff of the cigar in his hand, slowly stood up, stretched out his other hand and said: "It's nice to meet you, Mr. Colin Luper, I wonder if the people I sent scared you?"

The middle-aged man's words were obviously meaningful.

Colin pretended not to understand the meaning and reached out his hand to touch him lightly: "Obviously, not."

Hearing Colin's answer, the man looked at him deeply with his drooping eyes, and then pointed to the seat in the audience in front of him and said: "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Charlie Luciano, and I am a businessman."

Charlie Luciano?

Hearing the name introduced by the man, Colin's eyes wrinkled slightly.

Obviously, he was not unfamiliar with the name Luciano.

Charlie Luciano, or 'Lucky Charlie'.

This man, who looks like a wealthy businessman in a custom-made suit, is a well-known figure in American history. He is known as the father of modern organized crime in the United States. He presided over the first global Mafia Congress in the United States, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of the American Mafia for the next 50 years.

Even Luciano himself is the prototype of the old Godfather in the movie "The Godfather".

He is also the cousin of another notorious Mafia leader, "Scarface" Al Capone.

But unlike his cousin who is rampant and high-profile, Luciano is better at thinking and knows how to disguise himself. He hides behind the scenes all year round, and always keeps in mind the principle of caution. He never leaves any traces in his actions, even in extremely subtle places such as making phone calls and talking to people, he never ignores them.

It is precisely because of this that he is not worried about showing up in front of Colin, even though he knows that Colin is the owner of the Courier Newspaper.

Even Luciano often appeared in restaurants and theaters with well-known civic leaders, entertainers and other celebrities, hiding his true identity in this high-profile way, making him look more respectable.

In Colin's opinion, this may be the real difference between Luciano and Capone. Capone's high profile is to do evil, create tragedies, and make the public angry.

Luciano is hiding his crimes while acting in a high-profile manner, making everyone think that he is a respectable upper-class person.

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