Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was the background of Dr. Schairer's conference in Ann Arbor last week. Basic assumption in his group's discussions: at war's end Hitlerism will be defeated and Europe will be chaotic. Not ready to plump for the Danish scheme, the brain trust nevertheless favored a decentralized economic system, held that electrification would make it possible to disperse industry. At week's end, they announced their plan...
...This was remarkably like a scheme worked out by Presidential Assistant Lauchlin Currie in the Lend-Spend Bill of 1939, which would have let the railroads turn in old equipment on new, thus get new cars without down payment and at low RFC interest rates. A.A.R. showed little enthusiasm and Congress, led by Senator Wheeler, defeated the plan...
...Dunne brothers, and Labor Leader Dan Tobin has a big business (500,000 members, more than $6,000,000 in the bank). Uncle Dan decided that the Dunne brothers were too radical. He expelled them, set up a rival union and tried to siphon off their followers. The scheme fizzled. Uncle Dan gulped, took the Dunne brothers' Local 544 back in again...
...weak attitude of the Great Powers from 1895 on, and their failure to understand the true German designs, convinced the Berlin leaders that in the near future they could satisfy their wildest ambitions. Consequently the Pan-German scheme was extended to cover the whole world." He quotes Pan-Germanist Otto Richard Tannenberg (Greater Germany, the Work of the Twentieth Century) to prove that as early as 1911 Germany planned by 1950 to expand out of Europe and control the strategic points of the world, on land and sea, in Africa, Asia and the Americas, including all of South America south...
This ingenious scheme would nullify the provision of international law which limits the stay of belligerent warships in a neutral port to 24 hours. It would enable the U.S. to use Uruguayan ports and airfields as first-line refueling and supply bases. All that remained was for Dr. Ruiz and Uru guay's Foreign Minister Alberto Guani to agree on an equally ingenious formula to get new bases built with U.S. money without raising cries of Yanqui Imperialism...