Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandfather, Mathias Stinnes, was a rich man. His father, Gustav Stinnes, was also rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis of raw materials. As years passed his millions increased, during the War they grew rapidly, and after the War they simply swelled up to grotesque proportions and in 1924 the man, Hugo Stinnes, had won a prestige by the force of cold cash greater than any other man in history...
What the U. S. Thinks. Washington considered the reported terms of the experts scheme a compromise between moderate English and extreme French reparations claims. Doubt was expressed that Germany would accept the plan...
...Hungarian Government offered Jeremiah Smith, Jr., 54-year-old Boston lawyer, the post of Commissioner General under the League of Nations' scheme for reconstruction of Hungary. The post had previously been refused by W. P. G. Harding, Boston banker, onetime President of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board, and by Roland Boyden, former American observer on the Reparations Commission. Mr. Smith accompanied the American Peace Mission to Paris in 1918, as adviser on financial questions...
...This is the first time in the history of Grand Opera in America that a project such as you have started here has been attempted. You are starting right, for you are paying your way as you go. The history of opera companies that are managed under some scheme of subsidy or guarantee is a recital of failures. The Teapot Dome scandal of grand operadom was the Chicago Civic Opera Company in the days when Harold McCormick's millions were back of it. The extravagance was dreadful...
...When the scheme was first outlined, the artists directly obtained the permission of the Russian Commissariat of Education on the understanding that the Russian Red Cross was to receive 10% of the profits. Thereupon, the artists set out from Moscow, accompanied by Alexander I. Bukhareff, of the Commissariat of Education. But the American Consul at Riga refused to visé the passport of the last named gentleman, so the artists, with 900 pictures, continued unchaperoned...