Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further announced his appointment of Jesse Holman Jones to head the new Federal Loan Agency and of John Michael Carmody to head the new Federal Works Agency. Mr. Jones's translation from Reconstruction Finance Corp. was scarcely unexpected, but quick reference to the President's great new scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional banker, has been regarded by the New Deal as none too openhanded, no persistent pump-primer.* Secretary...
...Henry Ford, who knows about motorcars, informed a group of summer campers near Detroit: "I believe those three submarine disasters were caused by sabotage. It is all a scheme by financial war makers to get this country into war. Of course they'll blame Germany but I don't think Germany is responsible. The real truth is that wars are over with, and the financial war makers don't know...
...help finance its strike against Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (now in its seventh month), the American Newspaper Guild two months ago thought up a novel scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...
Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...
...sold more than 6,000 Thompsons for a gross of $1,330,000. In 1928, however, death came to Thomas Fortune Ryan. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. became executor, Elder Statesman Elihu Root the lawyer, of the $135,000,000 Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under Elihu Root's benign influence, sales were turned over...