Word: planned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence K. Streit [author of Union Now] with the first constructive plan to turn back the totalitarian tide...
...make a new, and better, trade treaty with Japan when the abrogated Treaty of 1911 expires next month. Japan has no better customer than the U. S., and is the U. S.'s third best. To get on Japan's good side, argue the protagonists of this plan, it would be worth swapping away spheres of interest in China, which, they say, are already lost anyhow...
...think of nothing more popular to do than support the Conservative Government's program of swiftly rearming Britain. Last week Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee favored the House of Commons with one of his most turgid effusions of Marxist dialectic, argued that Britain ought to "begin now to plan" to adopt Socialist nationalizations of the means of production as an aid to winning the war, provoked the quip, "If that speech could be bottled, Attlee would make a fortune selling it to cure insomnia...
Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. wrote a letter to Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., saying that they understood that big holding company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove Wendell Willkie's chronic complaint that investors will not buy utilities securities: his Otis & Co. would gladly pay a price "substantially in excess" of the $28.25 that C. & S. was going...
...great University "still has its fraternities and sororities, but the custom of living in the sorority and fraternity houses has pretty much given way among the students to the plan of living in dormitories...