Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner Robert Moses, who has spent over $500,000,000 building parks and boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives in New York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four-lane pedaling parkways, submitted his scheme to the Works Progress Administration for approval. As part of a 30-month park project, WPAsters will lay hard-surfaced paths, make grade crossings, erect highway signs and red-&-green traffic lights...
...observer was ready last week to predict that the commission would place its approval on the original partition scheme. In fact, the New York Times's Near Eastern correspondent, Joseph M. Levy, went on record with the statement that the turbulent conditions in Palestine had convinced the British that two far-reaching changes must be made in the partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here...
...stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs around the office. Hollywood gossips last week were wondering whether Myron's latest scheme might not cause his father, who believed in sharing as few profits as he could, to turn over in his grave...
...simpler scheme than Miss Thompson's for getting Jews out of Germany, and one already in use has been discovered by German Jews themselves. Every day dozens of Jews file into U. S. consulates and offices of U. S. firms to pore over New York City and Chicago city directories. From these they copy addresses of U. S. Jews to whom they might be related, hoping that letters to the U. S. will bring new-found relatives and sympathizers willing to arrange their passage...
Believing that too many churches are "put in mothballs" during the summer, Rev. Dr. John Robbins ("Jack") Hart Jr., Philadelphia Episcopalian, last summer founded an Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12, 1937). Its motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Unlike many another church promotion scheme, which quietly expires after getting some publicity, the Anti-Mothball Society last week had by no means slowed up. Energetic, curly-haired Jack Hart, associate rector of midtown St. Stephen's Church, longtime unofficial chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania, since last November the active rector of Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, expanded...