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Volney P. Mooney Jr. goes to Washington to advocate for veterans, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Volney P. Mooney Jr. goes to Washington to advocate for veterans, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Volney P. Mooney Jr. has gone to Washington to discuss with President Roosevelt executive orders covering disabled veterans, mostly relating to increasing widows' and orphans' pensions and greater benefits for the chronically disabled.
Commander of the Disabled American War Veterans Volney P. Mooney Jr. fights for increasing widows' and orphans' pensions and greater benefits for chronic disabilities.
Mooney leans back in his chair looking away from the camera. A potted plant can be seen behind him.
Handwritten on negative: Volney P. Mooney
Text from negative sleeve: Mooney, Volney P. Jr. (Nat'l Commander of Disabled American War Veterans) 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6411
ark:/21198/zz002cwmpb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Veterans' benefits--United States
Disabled American Veterans
Mooney, Volney P., Jr., 1899-1945
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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