Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this end the Veterans of Future Wars have united to force upon the Government and people of the U. S. the realization that ... all of us who will be engaged in the coming war deserve, as is customary, an adjusted service compensation, sometimes called a Bonus...
...demand that this Bonus be $1,000, payable June 1, 1965. . . . We demand immediate cash payment plus 3% compounded semiannually for 30 years back to June...
...Monopoly and billiards and work on an honors thesis about Machiavelli, Senior Lewis Jefferson Gorin, a small, grave Terrace member, had fallen to brooding about the way his elders and betters run the world. In the midst of these reveries, Congress had voted to cash the soldiers' Bonus in full ten years before it was due (TIME...
...premature Bonus payment was to become national policy, pondered Senior Gorin, why not pay "veterans" before they were even called to the colors? It would be a particularly happy circumstance for those who would not come back from the war to collect. Into his sardonic scheme he let a club-mate, Thomas Riggs Jr. The pair formed the Veterans of Future Wars, rented office space on Nassau Street, issued their manifesto. By last week the Veterans of Future Wars idea was rampaging over the nation's campuses...
Regarding the bonus...