Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...became convinced that the New Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When...
...Willing Exertions." In the most significant part of his budget speech the Chancellor left no doubt that His Majesty's Government stands for preserving as much laissez faire in British economy as stress of war permits. He said he had carefully considered but had finally rejected the famed scheme of Professor John Maynard Keynes to force compulsory saving on the British people by impounding at interest considerable portions of their incomes for the duration of the war (TIME, March 25). "Why," asked Sir John warmly, "should we suppose that the willing exertions of our people, if properly roused...
Clark first found out about the Foster Parents' scheme when he was in France last summer. He wrote during the winter with Miss Thompson, but they made no stipulations as to whether they wanted a little Spanish boy or a little Spanish girl, and the child was picked for them...
...present time Miss Thompson is trying to gain converts to the scheme at Radcliffe. She and Clark feel that Harvard and Radcliffe between them should be able to take care of more than one baby...
Thanks considerably to Sepp's print-lashings, Nazis-about-town become annoyed with the Gazette, hatch a scheme to buy over its angel. When Sepp is fired, the whole staff walks out after him, starts a rival paper. Sepp, frantic by now to get back to his music, is caught again...