Harold Ross, as managing editor of Stars and Stripes for the American Expeditionary Force, had been commended by General Pershing and by the French government for conceiving a plan whereby 3,567 children left orphaned by the First World War were adopted by American soldiers serving in Europe. In 1920 Ross, now stateside and editor of The American Legion, urged the nation's more than nine thousand American Legion posts to readopt these same orphans brought home by American soldiers, apparently through financial contributions to their welfare. Ross's publication supplied the copy of this article to newspapers around the country. Ross would later take on the editorship of Judge and then, in 1925, found his own weekly newsmagazine, The New Yorker.
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