Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press refused to take the Secretary of State's first-personal pronouns seriously. It headlined "Hoover Advocates U. S. Court Entry," "Hoover Takes World Court Plan of Root." Seasoned Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert took occasion to remark: "Mr. Hoover is not the kind of executive who turns over problems of his administration to subordinates." If these disrespectful remarks "got the Sec retary's goat"* he made no sign, allowed his announcement to pass as a declaration that one of Herbert Hoover's policies would be to put the U. S. into the World Court...
...balancing figure of the British budget. These facts were used last week in a slashing attack on the Laborite Chancellor by Conservative Sir Josiah Stamp. One of London's most potent tycoons. Sir Josiah served with Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan in drafting the Young Plan which Mr. Snowden would not endorse at The Hague until it had been changed, to give Britain more "sponge cake." Last week Sir Josiah testily observed: "Mr. Snowden set out to get something off the Latins. He has got practically nothing...
...death of First Prophet John Alexander Dowie (who stoutly insisted that the devil was a Methodist), Zion City has regained its solvency under rising real estate values and the shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature of his realm is his museum of the pomps and vanities, from wasp-waist corsets to collapsible lipsticks, which he had made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco...
...Dearborn's Mayor Clyde E. Ford revealed that his second cousin, Detroit's manufacturer Henry Ford, had offered a home for the garbage of Detroit and vicinity. His plan: to reduce garbage to grease, fuel and fertilizers at the Ford plant. Turning garbage into grease may sound to inexperts like catching mumps to cure measles, but to the Detroit city fathers it means a saving of several million dollars. The city will collect the garbage, deliver it to the Ford reduction plant; all further costs will come out of the Ford pocket. A Ford-operated garbage-to-grease plant...
...Unique only for the U. S. is the Yerkes plan. At Tenerife I., Canary Islands, the German Dr. Wolfgang Kohler conducted similar researches until the War disturbed him. At Kindia, Africa, the Pasteur Institute is directing very discreet efforts to cross apes and humans (TIME, April...