Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...there with his two daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress in 1930. Jouett Shouse was making about $50,000 per year out of his law business. He was not breaking even...
...ablest and wisest Jews in England regarded the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine for their co-religionists as a mischievous project. Even the New York Times, which is owned by Adolph Ochs, a Jew, only last week expressed opposition to the Balfour Declaration and the Zionist scheme...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Robert G. Mitchell set out to divorce her husband. Charge: his scheme to sell his two large automobiles and buy a Baby Austin constituted cruelty. Mrs. Mitchell weighs...
...because of such tendencies as overemphasis, absence from classwork and the dubious practicality' of continuing a sport season beyond its usual period. The evident lack of the names of responsible officials, both in the personnel of the two universities and the Red Cross, seems a direct refutation of the scheme advanced in the press...
...dreamer of black glories in Africa for himself and his U. S. following (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16, 1925)- The remainder is purely fictional. Marius Harvey (Frank Wilson) and his associates have planned a Back-to-Africa movement for Negroes, chartered boats, expecting to make money on the scheme. But when Marius Harvey assembles his clients in a hall to tell his plans, his eloquence carries him away, he becomes spiritually involved in the mission of leading his people back to the promised land. This scene stands out as an impressive bit of acting...