Word: ruses
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...would require another petition and under the rules the bill could not be brought up until the second Monday in May (May 14, too close to expected adjournment for any likelihood of passage). Undeterred, the advocates of the bill, led by Michigan's McLeod who called the ruse "one of the rawest things I've ever heard of," completed their petition, hoped to force its consideration in spite of the trick played on them. They even circulated for signature a manifesto announcing that they would not allow Congress to adjourn until the bill had been voted...
...organization known as Tammany Society. With a fine show of public spirit, Aaron Burr promoted a water system for the city. In the charter for his Manhattan Co. he inserted a clause permitting it to engage in "moneyed transactions." A few of the people's representatives suspected a ruse but Burr talked vaguely of "trade with the Indies" and the charter was granted. Manhattan Co. promptly opened a banking business which it still carries on at 70 branches throughout New York. For the first 100 years of its existence Bank of New York remained the biggest institution...
...down the river. Hearing the sound of the drums, people flocked in from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew and remained with us until seven o'clock in the morning. The promise about fights was not strictly kept...
Another little ruse that some of the Andover boys at Harvard have found very satisfactory consists of learning all the dope on a given subject down cold, cold, cold. It doesn't make so much difference what subject you pick, as long as you know it backwards and forwards. Then, when you tackle a question on the exam, you start your answer by repeating the question on your paper; then you rack your brain for some way of connecting the question up to the subject which you know cold. Having found this missing link, you write that in and then...
First the purchase of 700 of the 1,600 trucks was transferred from the CCC to the War Department. Ford Dealer Ralph Paul Sabine, the low bidder, promptly protested that the War Department was trying to change the specifications so as to throw out the Ford bid. This ruse discovered, the responsibility for purchasing the 700 trucks was handed back to the CCC by the War Department...