Word: plans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar...
...Labor. Heeding the grumblings of unemployed miners she summoned miners and mine owners to Downing Street, listened to both sides. After deliberation she offered the grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...
...hockey rink should be built as soon as funds were provided for the purpose. At that time it seemed probable that a group of alumni, headed by one already a generous benefactor of the College, would contribute toward the building of an arena to house an enclosed rink. The plan did not develop in time to build a rink for use during last season. Active agitation for a rink has been carried on in the meantime however, by a group of Dartmouth alumni interested in hockey. The donor of this latest gift to Dartmouth enables the College to fill what...
...could better illustrate what is vulgarly known as 'coming down to brass tacks.' Professor W. R. Spalding, trained, as he says, by his father not to waste the time of important people, presented Mr. Eliot with a carefully wrought plan for improvement in the Department of Music. 'Mr. Spalding,' said the President, 'your argument is cogent and conclusive. Good morning...
...there may well be a tendency for an overzealous Employment Manager to discriminate against athletes. While being faintly humorous such a situation would hardly be fundamentally sound and it is up to both organizations now responsible for the successful operation of the concessions to work out some carefully considered plan for the operation of the concessions which will obviate the abuses possible under the present arrangement...