Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's Senate spokesman on Neutrality, Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, brought forth a plan to amend the present law so that the President need no longer prohibit munitions sales to belligerent nations, but only forbid U. S. ships to transport any goods to belligerents and U. S. nationals to travel on belligerents' ships. A "cash & carry" plan for all exports to belligerents would obviously work against Adolf Hitler, who in case of war with England and France would lack both cash to buy and ships to carry...
...Swedish the word plan means both airplane and scheme. Last week there reached the U. S. from Sweden a strange story involving both...
...that did not settle the matter. In the Riksdag a member named Herr Wallén (who just a short while before had an nounced himself the Parliament's first anti-Semite) arose and berated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on the matter of the plan (airplane). In the course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...
...year-old Willie Durant, his wife and various associates including the brokerage houses of Alexander Eisemann & Co. and H. W. Armstrong & Co. with "having cheated " and defrauded persons for whom futures contracts were made... by the manner in which they promoted and operated a scheme sometimes called the Buchhalter plan of trading...
Joseph Buchhalter, who was also cited last week, is a onetime Denver commodity trader and real estate dealer who devised a scheme for profiting from Henry Wallace's "ever-normal granary" program. Ihe Buchhalter plan entailed simultaneously going short and long on wheat contracts (buying and selling at the same price). Then if the price rose 1?, the profit was immediately realized on the long side while the short was kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices...