Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headline, "Vassar Cooperating," is an appetizer potent enough to make any Yale breakfast tasty. If you add to that juicy morsel the piece de resistance of an immediate cash bonus disbursement for all persons under thirty-six, this being the reading period surprise of the Great White Father, and then dump both sweet essences into the arms of full-blooded Yale men, any Bolshevist will admit that you've got the makings of a dirty-bourgeois bombshell...
...greater or less degree that is what happened here yesterday. Campus opinion was unanimous in its approval of the program of "The Veterans of Future Wars," organized at Princeton to get a bonus for the youth of the country. The economic aspect of the plan came in for particular praise. No one could deny that the granting of the bonus would aid Mr. Hopkins to get rid of that embarrassing "wad" he is trying to dispose of, and as young 'uns are notoriously good spenders, the effect on the depression would be incalculable. As for the justice of the demands...
...retrospect, we feel that although some fraction of the recipients of the recent bonus deserved all that the government could give them and many, perhaps, even more than was finally allotted, nevertheless, it is true that some ridicule is healthy and necessary for good government. --Yale Daily News
...Yale Post Commander Theodore Woolsey, some 300 yets marched on the Political Union House, which was in the midst of a debate on the Hauptmann trial, and demanded that the Union pass the bonus payable...
This purpose will be accomplished through (1) exploitation of patriotism, (2) instigation of foreign wars, (3) publication of stolen letters and telegrams, (4) manufacture of misleading propaganda, (5) political crusades against persons disagreeing with its aims and methods, (6) support for all pension and bonus schemes, and (7) the extermination of the red menace in colleges, prep schools, and kindergartens...