DCHP-3

Soldier Settlement Board

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a federal government board having charge of settling veterans on land grants following World War I. Abbrev. S.S.B.

See: S.S.B.

Quotations

1921
. . . according to the report of the Soldier Settlement Board, 25,443 of his brothers­-in-arms have forsaken the cities . . . and gone to the soil. . . .
1951
The original Soldier Settlement Board . . . was bringing out veterans of the 1914-18 war . . . to settle on western farms.
1965
Tom got a position with the Soldier Settlement Board.