Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Similar photograph appears with the article, "War Victims Plea Voiced," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb 1935: 2. Commander of the Disabled American War Veterans Volney P. Mooney Jr. visits President Roosevelt in Washington to fight for increasing widows' and orphans' pensions and greater benefits for chronic disabilities. Mooney stands in front of an open filing cabinet, both drawers stuffed with documents, as he flips through another file. Text from negative sleeve: Mooney, Volney P. Jr. (Nat'l Commander of Disabled American War Veterans) 1935 Handwritten on negative: Volney P. Mooney, Jr.
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