Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount has advanced a neat solution of the whole mystery. "The Street of Chance", now current at the Uptown is based frankly upon the known facts of the Rothstein murder with a mixture of adduced facts and some love interest added thereto in order to make a presentable movie plot...
...charge was hurled?with the typical recklessness of the Paris pamphleteer?that the fall last fortnight of the moderate French Cabinet of André Tardieu was the result of an international Socialist "plot." The British Socialists and their leader Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...MacDonald-Briand "plot" seemed highly improbable, nevertheless nearly everyone in Paris did believe that sly old B'rer Briand was the man who set afoot a national (not international) intrigue among the French Left Parties which resulted in the Cabinet's fall...
Conservative whips, anxious to plot their party strategy for the ensuing parliamentary term, have threatened, blustered, begged the complacent Labor Government for some hint of the make-up of the soon-to-be-announced Budget. Did the Labor Party intend to retain the old protective duties on sugar, silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...POWEL, a Harvard graduate of the class of 1909 and a former editor of the Lampoon, has a way of building an amusing, readable novel around a fantastic plot. This was true of his "Virgin Queene" of a year or so ago, and even more true of his latest, "Married Money," which focuses Mr. Powel's satire on points near at home and tender, that is to say on Harvard and Boston...