Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...time when every crackpot scheme had a chance, a little bloc of Western silver-State Senators, by vote-trading, logrolling, wheedling, threatening, thrust the 1934 Act down the unwilling throats of Messrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Jr. Only some 2 5 mining companies profit under the Act, and half of them are controlled by Eastern capital. The largest, Sunshine Mining Co., is owned by Pacific Coast Lumbermen; eleven have headquarters in New York City, one in Boston, one in the Midwest. Except for wages, most of the silver subsidy returns to the East...
...Lunched with grey, good-natured, conservative Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, perpetual in-&-outer among Hitler's economic advisers. If any scheme was abroad for a World Bank to redistribute gold along the lines proposed by the State Department's Brain-truster Adolf Berle (TIME, Feb. 19), Dr. Schacht was the man to discuss it with...
...Dean Ferguson's report. Briefly, the opposition denied that the case of the ten assistant professors was a budgetary question. They pointed out the incontrovertible fact that the burden of dismissals had fallen so unequally as to cripple three departments. And the opposition's solution, the frozen associate professorship scheme, was adopted by the Faculty, and presumably approved by the Administration. These "frozen associate professors were designed to introduce flexibility into the new tenure system by enabling departments to keep their permanent staffs at full strength without unbalancing the budget...
Samuel E. Morison, professor of History, who sponsored the scheme for transferring the President's archives from Washington to a permanent repository at Hyde Park, predicted yesterday that these records would become an invaluable contribution to Americana...
...Governor Bricker replied with strong criticism of WPA when President Roosevelt rebuked Ohio for: 1. Voting down the old-age pension scheme...