Word: gorin
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...read this manifesto in the Daily Princetonian. Members of Terrace Club, upper-class eating sodality, were not so puzzled. The dank midwinter in semi-isolated Princeton is a tedious time. Between long games of 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...