Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrangements for the course were made directly betwen Chang and the Japanese War Department. It is understood that this is only part of a scheme which the Manchurian Tuchun has in mind for recouping his military prestige, so badly undermined by General Wu Pei-Fu last year...
...scheme of the Association is briefly this: The artist members and the lay members are equally divided. Each lay member pays $600 annually, for which he is entitled to one work of art, chosen by him in the order of his rank by lot. The artists donate one work annually for a period of three years. Some of the world's greatest artists are numbered in the group, whose works would command anywhere several times $600. On the other hand, there are many comparatively young and unknown, to whom this excellent plan comes as a godsend in marketing their wares...
...Morgan-Harjes Bank in the Place Vendôme, Paris, was held a meeting on "a scheme embracing the restoration of French finance...
Benito was quite tickled with the Rumanian scheme and instructed the Minister of Industries to speedily conclude an economic agreement...
...pages. Where whole books or chapters were intact, they were sold as units. The splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum of Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Public Library, Mc-Gill University, University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Colgate University, Newark Public Library. Mr. Wells gave to the New York Public Library enough leaves to complete its copy except for one page. Henry E. Huntington paid...