Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judicious Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman (TIME, Sept. 1) had devised the scheme. His orders from the President were to survey the entire program, to suggest a reorganization which would settle the increasingly louder bickering. "Sammy the Rose," who believes in the efficiency of simpleness, began by calling on all defense chiefs. After a day of calls he would return to his quiet, comfortable White House room, knit his judicial brow, write down the problems to be solved...
...Louisiana and Arkansas along with control of the vital Mississippi River waterway. But Kotmk had pulled herself up by her bootstraps, raised a powerful army, made up for her loss of the Louisiana oil fields by making new strikes in Texas. "The State had undertaken also a gigantic scheme of physical culture. . . . The birth rate in Kotmk had risen to a point where it was far in excess of more prosperous Almat. The vigor of the young people of Kotmk was so pronounced that medical authorities all over the world held [it] up as the finest ever devised...
...underestimate his own importance. As soon as he broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe: CBS wouldn't let him rate pictures (according to a chromatic scheme running from "No bells" for rotten to "Four bells" for a smash) the way he wanted to. Moaned...
...Presbyterian Church will change its form of government and get itself a real chief executive if the denomination's last moderator has his way. Wrote Dr. William Lindsay Young last week in the Presbyterian Tribune: "The Presbyterian Church . . . feels leaderless . . . because of our organizational scheme. The moderator is not an official spokesman. His office is looked upon as purely honorary, lasting for but a brief period of time, and ... by the time he is experienced enough to be of value, his term of office is over...
Stalwart as her massive mahogany fourposter, a hateful woman whose keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...