Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work's many subordinates. Contrary to G. O. P. tradition, there would be, said Dr. Work, no New York headquarters for the Hoover campaign. That was the Moses diminuedo. Senator Moses hastened to Washington. He was told he might be something called Director of the Service of Plan and Policy. He returned to Manhattan thinking that he was Chairman Work's practical-political advisor and virtually his peer. But last week, at a Manhattan meeting of National Committeemen from the New England and Middle Atlantic States, Senator Moses found that Dr. Work still intended to control the entire...
...Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must pay a premium of $1.50 a month, or about one cent on every dollar he makes. If he dies, Mrs. Hazay will get $2,000. If he falls ill, of any sickness, he will be paid $15 a week for as long as 13 weeks. The 14th week...
Jose R. Capablanca, onetime world chsss champion, left by the Mauretania, predicted gloomily that in 15 years the game of chess will be exhausted, every combination of moves will be known even to amateurs. But he has a plan. Use a larger board, two additional pieces, four players. Mme. Halide Edib, Oriental feminist, sergeant in the Turkish army, once sentenced to death by a Sultan, arrived on the Aquitania, to address the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced...
...British freight rates on coal, in an effort to stimulate that industry, and relieve unemployment among miners. Second, Mr. Baldwin announced that Simon Joseph Fraser, Baron Lovat, Permanent Undersecretary of the Dominions Office, will shortly set sail for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to prepare a survey and general plan for integrating the manpower needs of Daughter Dominions with the job needs of Mother Britain. The projects, after being amply aired by Prime Minister Baldwin (Conservative), were roundly flayed by onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (Laborite) as "an abject confession of the Government's hopelessness and failure...
...retrograde movements taking place in the country. ... It is a question of preserving the dictatorship of the proletariat, won in October 1917. "We will not surrender the October Revolution to the politics of Stalin-the entire essence of which is contained in these few words: . . . capitalism on the installment plan. . . . "The proletariat thinks slowly, but it thinks strong. . . . [We say to Stalin] your persecutions, expulsions, arrests, will make our platform the most popular and the closest and dearest documents of the international workers' movement. Expel us. You will not stop the victory of the Opposition-the victory...