Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counter-revolutionary scheme by fascistic anti-Semites who intended to crush Revolution No. 1 before it got under way, set up a dictatorship in Atlanta under a retired U. S. Army General...
Last week the Association's voluntary insurance scheme, under the leadership of Stanford University's Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, went into operation. The rival plans...
...This scheme is in the tradition of the great statesmen of America's history, he says. "I foresee a day when some Congressmen, not a wildcat but a man grounded in American history, faithful to the memory of John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren and Lincoln, a man grounded in monetary horse sense and practical national finance will propose stamp scrip as payment for all new government expenditures, and for the payment of such part of their employees' salaries as they normally spend on their current expenses...
...suggestion fell on the deaf ears of already over-burdened department heads, it got a more sympathetic reception from three Californians who agreed to finance a scheme to stimulate extra-curricular reading in American History. Next week the eight History Counsellors and the Faculty committee in charge will meet to evaluate the accomplishments of the program's first year, and to chart a course...
...William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington's wonder grew. Best guess was that isolationists had hit on a new scheme to keep out of war: stir up bad feeling over the War debts, which nobody could do better than William Griffin...