Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only disfranchised that 16% of the voters who could not understand the ballots but had given the Democrats, snowed under by 450,000 votes for Fusionist Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the mayoralty race, a majority of 14 of the council's 26 members. Having earnestly supported the scheme before the election, the tabloid Daily News last week expressed its disillusionment with characteristic spice: "Unlike our contemporaries, we can make mistakes. ... P. R. as operated here smells...
...Chautemps and M. Delbos blandly told Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Eden and Sir Robert in effect that France was willing to go just as far in this matter as Britain-whereupon what had seemed to be British ardor to get action last week on behalf of Germany's scheme rapidly cooled, according to best posted London correspondents...
...likely to solve the greatest industrial problem of the present. For example, Harvard should have been one of the first to work out an Old Age Pension Plan instead of being one of the corporations that yielded when the whole country was talking about the inevitability of the scheme. An active, positive attitude towards finding how labor ought to be treated is called for, and not a policy of waiting until the country creeps ahead and then catching up in a public fluster...
Roosevelt's scheme to quarantine aggressors, according to Borchard's paper, embodies a collectivist principle which so far has resulted only in "failure and humiliation...
...attractiveness of this line of solution to the crisis caused by German expansion hides the great difficulties of the scheme. The first obstacle to the plan is the natural unwillingness of the Colonial Powers in individuo to give up land to Germany. Japan, Australia, Belgium, and the British Admiralty have already expressed sharp opinions on this point. A more fundamental obstacle is the doubt whether Germany's ambitions, which are predominantly for Teutonic unity and supremacy in Eastern Europe, can be permanently satisfied by stretches of jungle. In Mein Kampf Hitler puts his colonial aims as a poor second...