Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Dominions explained that they were not asking Great Britain to adopt the double scheme of abolishing tariff barriers within the Empire and building a tariff wall around it, as has been sensationally urged for more than a year by Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere in the name of "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...
...athletics are now organized the situation seems unavoidable. Yet it could be considerably improved by a wide-spread adoption of the "double-header" scheme used by Harvard for its opening games. Under this system, the whole squad of the large college can get the necessary practice, while the small colleges have a fairer chance of scoring, by not having to face a succession of fresh players put into the game in numerous substitutions. The general employment of this scheme would be an important step toward the goal of introducing a sporting element into what tends to be a commercial enterprise...
Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...
...programs on Oct. 17. Under Conductor Frederick Stock the Chicago Symphony will give its usual series in Orchestra Hall, additional concerts in Milwaukee and at the Uni-versity of Chicago. The Cincinnati Symphony points with pride to its thriving under the sponsorship of the Institute of Fine Arts (endowment scheme begun three years ago by Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and her late husband). Minneapolis concerts under Belgian Henri Verbrugghen are to be broadcast over a nationwide hookup. Mrs. Carlyle Scott is this Orchestra's new manager...
...office of the Department of Physical Education has been moved to the first floor and that of the visiting preacher to the top floor. Dr. Worcester, speaking with regard to the recent changes said, "We have now the most efficient scheme yet devised for handling the work of this department. The entire second floor is now devoted to this service. Incidentally, this is the first time that we have ever had a trained nurse in Wadsworth House...