Word: gorin
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Founder of the Future Wars veterans Lewis J. Gorin is now 1L at the Harvard Law School and has evidently given up all thoughts of raping the Treasury...
...whole idea originated with Gorin, The organization promised that it would actively lobby for a $1,000 bonus to all pre-veterans. Assuming that a war is inevitable the promoters thought that the soldiers-to-be should enjoy while they were physically fit. Why wait until they were crippled, matured, or even dead. Apparently, however, they have decided to wait...
Reading over these invitations in his tiny Nassau Street offices, soft-spoken National Commander Lewis Jefferson Gorin of the Veterans of Future Wars grinned with approval. To an impressive list of U. S. dignitaries including President & Mrs. Roosevelt, the Cabinet, National Commander Ray Murphy of the American Legion and National Commander James E. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he and fellow-Princetonians mailed the following...
...Gorin's book is a good introduction to the manual of that new great youth movement, the V. F. W. In concise and unlabored prose Mr. Gorin explains the motives of the organization which he founded and the highly logical methods through which their ends may be achieved. The bonus for the Veterans of Future Wars is payable now, he explains. "There is no sense in going to war, as every true veteran of the last few years will tell you, unless there is some provision for living in idleness at the expense of the government for the rest...
...Neither Gorin's father, a Louisville, Ky., tobacco merchant, nor Riggs's, a onetime Governor of Alaska, entered any objection to their offsprings' activity. Princeton's William Starr Myers, official Historian of the Republican Party, solemnly pronounced the scheme "a very constructive movement." At Columbia the Spectator launched a Bonus campaign. At Chicago undergraduates promptly set up "Fort Dearborn Post No. 1," declared: "We will make the world safe for hypocrisy!" At Vassar an auxiliary called "Association of Gold Star Mothers of Future Veterans" (later changed under public pressure to "Home Fire Division") demanded free transportation...