Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consternation at The Hague!" headlined typically La Liberte. "Snowden is torpedoing everything?the conference, the Young Plan, the peace of Europe...
...doubtless asked and received details of Mr. MacDonald's morning's work of mediation. The real subject of the Norman-MacDonald-Lamont conference, however, was the reparations situation at The Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through...
...prohibitive though it was. "Our need for locomotives at this time is basic and fundamental!" said he, as if to rebuke the slow low bidders. Ferreting correspondents learned that a down payment of $5,000 will be made on each German locomotive, successive payments to be on the instalment plan with a carrying charge...
...year ago the F. W. Woolworth Co., 5˘ & 10˘ bazaarists, were doing practically no advertising, But bobbed-haired Catherine McNelis, able president of the McNelis-Weir advertising agency (Manhattan), thought they should. She consulted Woolworth executives, told them of a plan: advertise in magazines, arrange with manufacturers of Woolworth-sold articles to advertise at the same time, the manufacturer to pay for the cost of their pages. Woolworthmen at first turned deaf ears, explained that Woolworth windows were their best advertisements. Miss McNelis persisted, reminded them that 1929 was Woolworth's 50th anniversary, suggested the advertisements be made to look...
What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...