Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lutheran synodical bodies in the U. S., 17 are united for executive purposes in the National Lutheran Coumcil of which J. A. Morehead is Director. Offended by the scheme (TIME, March 17) to induce Lutheran ministers to speculate in francs as retaliation against France, Mr. Morehead issued a statement: "The effort to involve the Lutheran Church in the promotion of speculation, religious antagonism, national hatred, is abominable." A similar sentiment was expressed by F. H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...
...exhibit comprises some landscapes and still lifes in oil. The landscapes are all rather sentimental in treatment and tend toward a general scheme of green...
Thomas E. Wilson, in a special letter to the stockholders, assailed the Swift interests as competitors and opponents of his financial plans. He stated that a majority of the common stockholders, who were most affected by his scheme of financing, were in favor of it. He could not, however, secure the needed two-thirds vote, and his plan consequently fell through. Partly to conserve working capital and partly perhaps as a tit-for-tat with the rebellious preferred stockholders, the 'dividend on the latter issue was passed...
This is highly praiseworthy; the sponsors of the scheme, no doubt, looking abroad upon a naughty world and finding it bad, have decided to establish for themselves a little oasis of purity in the surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing...
...Mines. A new scheme of air defense for England is being prepared by the Air Ministry under the direction of Colonel Edward B. Ashmore, who commanded London's defense during the War. Great areas of the sky will be "mined" by hundreds of captive balloons, from which huge nets will be hung, the system extending to a height of three miles. Above these "mines," to a further height of nearly six miles, a complete vertical barrage of bursting shells will "prevent any aviator coming through alive." Smoke screens of such proportions as to form veritable clouds will help...