Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average $487,600,000, and of this $165,900,000 to be paid unconditionally, with payment of the rest conditioned on German capacity to pay without impairing the value of the mark?a protection which the Fatherland already enjoys under the so-called "transfer clause" of the Dawes Plan...
...Karl Zörgiebel forbade all outdoor demonstrations on Der Tag. All the more determined, Communist bands assembled early in various parts of the city. Leather-helmeted police swinging rubber clubs quickly cleared the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden, but the Communists, acting according to a pre-arranged plan, concentrated in two suburban workers' districts, Wedding...
When this motion dismally failed to pass, newsgatherers one and all cabled that the cardinal principle of the Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down but merely tabled on a point of order. The distinction is doubtless important, but the fact remains that no delegate except Red Russia's Litvinov proposed anything remotely approaching an endorsement of the cardinal Hoover point...
...ergot if such a suggestion got abroad, but he said that it would be triply unfortunate since: 1) He had been nominated for the Hanbury Medal to be awarded by the British Pharmaceutical Society on May 15; 2) He had submitted in the Hearst prohibition contest a carefully studied plan, the influence of which might be adversely affected; 3) At the Columbia Commencement he is to present five candidates for honorary degrees and it would be opposed to the University's welfare for him to appear before a suspicious and sneering audience...
...Edison, who is in Fort Myer, Fla., and has often been called a genius, did not deny that genius was what he was hunting. But from Johns Hopkins went a protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely to be misunderstood. "An accurate description of the new Johns Hopkins plan might liken it to the Rhodes foundation for U. S. students, with Johns Hopkins substituted for Oxford University, chemistry specified...