43,000 marchers were in the protest that Pelham D. Glassford ended.
 He later served as Superintendent of the District of Columbia Police Department, and was in large measure held responsible for the violence that ended the 1932 Bonus Army protests. 
Bonus Army was the popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groupswho gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. 
