Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter is now under consideration by the Cabinet with Mr. Brown defending his scheme. Already a Joint Board of Army and Navy officers, comprised of Generals Pershing, Hines and Wells, and of Admirals Eberle, Jackson and Shoemaker, has submitted an adverse report to the President on the proposal to unify the War and the Navy Departments. They believe that it might promote a certain economy in expenditure but at the sacrifice of mobility and speed, elements of high importance in military operations...
Undoubtedly the scheme is somewhat idealistic, almost Utoplan in the results which the author foretells. But then every scheme is idealistic until tested in practice. The French Academy was laughed at until its influence on the language and literature of France become unmistakably apparent. In fact it has made the language so clear and precise by its definitions that French has become the medium of diplomacy. Now that English is used by over 200 millions of people scattered over the globe, an institution to regulate and unify it, whether originating here or in its home, has become a necessity...
...born in Victoria, Tex., in 1864 and claimed to be of Cuban parentage, on account of which he used the Spanish form of his name. He was first a cowboy, then an inspector of customs, cattle trader, cotton raiser. From the cotton and wool business he branched into a scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After...
...kidnapping and of an anti-foreign motive, in their present form they would be likely to incense the people and render nugatory security for foreign lives and property. Without foreign coercion, the note said, the Chinese Government is punishing responsible officials and making every effort to suppress brigandage. The scheme for railway police, put forward by the Diplomats in their note under the head of guarantees, was criticized principally because of its inadequacy. Said Dr. Koo: "The Government trusts that through a series of new measures recently adopted relative to the reorganization of railway police, the suppression of brigandage...
...From my own personal point of view I can readily see that some such scheme might be valuable. The German department has courses of two kinds, those designed chiefly to give instruction in the German language, and those that have to deal with German life and literature. In the first of these there would seem to be no need for the tutor. In the second there readily might be. To have men, tutors or advisers, call them what you will, to oversee, guide, and encourage the individual work of the students in the department would certainly be of great assistance...