Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain, citizen of France, denied that he had given money to Greece. Inquired The Wall Street Journal: New York World cable says you deposited two and a half million dollars to guarantee Italian reparations, but not solely altruistic as with English, French and America capitalists you had big scheme afoot to develop Salonica Ghevgely Railroad, which would supplant Egypt Oriental route by Italy. Give me personal liberty to speak in your defense...
Have not made any deposit whatsoever and have no railroad scheme for any part of the globe. Tour kindness touches me. BASIL ZAHAROFF...
...Armistice on unemployment and that the 1,295,136 army of unemployed is likely to be increased to more than 2,000,000 people during the coming Winter, Premier Baldwin is being pressed to take "definite action." Many people are advocating extension of the exports credit's scheme-a scheme which indirectly means industrial subsidies; others suggest new railway construction and electrification projects. The Premier answered all these queries: " The policy of the Government is being directed earnestly toward settlement of the reparation problem and the establishment of sound and stable economic conditions throughout Europe, and eventually...
...situation in Europe is gloomy in the extreme, hidden events are somewhat more reassuring. It is known that several transactions were made recently between German, British and French industrial concerns. The practical effect of these transactions is to give Britain and France an interest in future German production. The scheme is ingenious and it may be justly inferred that the interested concerns would not enter into negotiations at the present time unless the Anglo-Franco-Belgian situation warranted such a course...
...letter with the rebuke: "One cannot permit an artist of Lavery's distinction and age to be insulted like that." Lady Lavery and Lady Cunard are both Americans, and the rejection has been ascribed by some to anti-American prejudice. Others see in the incident a well laid scheme of the painter to have his wife immortalized in the exclusive gallery. The predilections of the committee are toward the French school...