Word: flinn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the Yankee doughboy is not the best paid soldier in the world is settled definitely by Mr. Flinn's articles in Tuesday's CRIMSON; unfortunately, many of us have entertained contrary illusions in regard to this matter...
Some of Mr. Flinn's other points fall to exhibit the convincing power of his first statements. He says that a lack of common sense was shown in suggesting that our obligation to the American soldier ceased at the signing of the peace ternls. If we pay a man a fair salary while he works for us, give him a bonus when he leaves, and then hunt up a job for him, we certainly are treating him squarely...
...Flinn goes on to say that the writer of the CRIMSON editorial advocated our breaking faith with our fighting men. I am somewhat at a loss to know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...
Such a bonus would insure a subsistence for the newly discharged solider; would be an incentive for the newly established man to save, and for the more fortunate one an opportunity to put into practice his philanthropic ideas regarding the care of a soldier's dependents. R. S. FLINN...
...Dorchester, Clement Harlow Condell; Allan Roland Browne '22, of Kansas City, Mo., Harvard Club of Kansas City; Bartholomew Anthony Curry '22, of Cambridge, Daniel A. Buckley; Julius Davidson '19, of Weehawken, N. J., Class of 1828; Robert Bulman Drummery '21, of South Boston, Joseph Eveleth; Harold Milton Flinn '21, of Newton, Joseph Eveleth; Lewis Eugene Gilman '22, of Malden, Harvard Club of Boston; Arnold Eugene Grade '22, of Cambridge, Daniel A. Buckley; Arthur Oscar Greenberg '20, of Jamaica Plain, Bowditch; Miles Hanson, Jr., '20, of Roxbury, Price Greenleaf; Henry Wilson Hardy '22, of Cambridge, Daniel A. Buckley; David Hettleman...