Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove that such a scheme has worked out on a small scale, and that Germany could be persuaded to enter into it, Miss Thompson cites the little-known Ha'avara arrangements between Germany and the Jews in Palestine. Ha'avara, an organization for the transfer of .capital of German-Jewish emigrants, five years ago succeeded in getting Germany to accept frozen German-Jewish funds to pay for exports. German exporters get paid for the goods they ship to Palestine out of earmarked emigrant funds (blocked marks). By this method, some 82,000,000 marks in goods have been...
Strictly as a trade journal, P. I. has served its industry well.* It has carefully reported and assayed every simple or fantastic scheme to get the U. S. consumer to buy something. It has evolved statistical summaries of the status of advertising. It maintains a clearinghouse for advertising slogans, now has 7,500 on file. Its Readers' Service answers 300 questions a week, provides P. I.'s editors with an insight into the problems of advertisers. To the irrepressible, sometimes irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer...
...noon that day the weak, confused Government of Left Republican Santiago Casares Quiroga issued a communiqué condemning a revolt that it admitted had broken out in Spanish Morocco, but protesting that "nobody, absolutely nobody had taken part in this absurd scheme" in Spain proper. But before the week was out Premier Casares Quiroga's "nobody" had grown to a formidable list of somebodies, including Spain's best generals, 75% of the Spanish Army of 120,000 officers and men, many devout Catholic communicants, an overwhelming majority of the numerous Roman Catholic clergy, former noblemen and landowners, Fascists...
Pharaoh of Egypt thought so highly of Joseph for inventing the ever-normal granary plan of crop control that he freed him from jail, made him governor. Although the scheme worked well enough then, it has taken thousands of years, millions of dollars and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...
...same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman who wishes to die in the odor of sanctity, permit me to hit the sawdust trail. Just to indicate how faulty is my scheme of reference in general, may I point out that some 15 years ago I resided in a charming hotel at the head of the Spanish Steps in Rome and did not know for two weeks that it was a brothel. A man such as that is capable of any mistake...