Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about $5,300,000,000 two years ago to about $7,000,000,000 for the current year. . . . With his products not selling on a parity with the products of industry, every sound remedy that can be devised should be applied for the relief of the farmer. . . . No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for Government fixing of prices, no resort to the public Treasury will be of any permanent value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer himself are the only real sources of restoration. Indirectly the farmer must be relieved...
Anyone wholeheartedly interested in undergraduate life at Harvard must necessarily stamp with his approval the proposed and now accepted plan of amalgamating the Hasty Pudding Club and the Institute of 1770, D. K. E. Any such practical scheme of simplifying the present club system is a step in the right direction...
...implications of Mr. Mellon's tax reduction scheme were brought out in the discussion which followed the proposal. No predictions were so sensational as those of Roger Ward Babson. Mr. Babson, 48-year-old statistician of Wellesley Hills, Mass., is President of Babson's Statistical Organization, originator of the " business barometers " which bear his name. Where Mr. Mellon proposed savings of tens of dollars to taxpayers, Mr. Babson calculates that there will be hundreds of dollars saved...
...Prince was so closely allied to the question of disarmament control in Germany that it should be treated as one and the same question. He then proposed the occupation of Hamburg by the British and the occupation of Frankfort, Bremen and Elbesfeld by the French. The occupation of Hamburg scheme was later denied by the Quai d'Orsay...
Commissioner Leach's scheme is just the old one of "passing the buck", poorly concealed. If the scum were skimmed from New York, it would of course fall upon the next gold mine--perhaps Boston or Philadelphia. And since New York is the richest mine of all, it would come slipping back as soon as the temporary vigilance relaxed. The onus cannot be shifted. If the police cannot police the city, then it becomes time for internal reformation; and if the present Commissioners cannot handle the situation, the burghers of New York will doubtless find it expedient to institute...