Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Never unduly optimistic, British politicians of all three parties seemed to feel that the conference is bound to fail. From the jail in which St. Gandhi sits reports issued recently that he will try to set up in India a "parallel government." If this outlandish scheme is tried, self-appointed Gandhites will try to duplicate all the functions of the Government of India. They already have their own "police" who try and are frequently permitted to keep order at Gandhite mass demonstrations when the regular police find themselves swamped by numbers...
...coming session the Labor Government must put their new stopgap scheme to the test, either wangle through with it or go to the country for a general election...
...return to the U. S., Mr. Bob had announced that he was forming a $50,000,000 airways company to control all U. S. lines, that the Government was in back of him, that Colonel Lindbergh would head the great enterprise. Authoritative sources speedily denied the airy scheme and Charles Victor Bob's rise to fame was postponed...
...general depression, stressed the company's sound cash position. "In times of depression," said the management's letter to stockholders, "there will appear designing individuals who will seek to stir up dissension and seize upon it to accomplish selfish ends. . . . We must . . . warn you against any scheme . . . which may have as its object stock manipulation for the benefit of the few." Between-the-lines readers saw in this statement a suggestion that a Morrow victory might result in a merger between Ward and Gold Dust...
Solid South is the story of how two Pittsburgh millionaires-father & son-pierce the Mason-Dixon line, win the hands of two aristocratic daughters-widow & child-of the Confederacy. Antagonistic to the Yankees' scheme is the ladies' father-in-law and grandfather, Major Bruce Follonsby (Richard Bennett). If the play is meant to satirize life in the South, or even the stage-idea of life in the South, it fails...