Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Idaho Falls the President suggested in general a scheme for a consumers' league to lessen the cost of necessaries by coöperative buying. At Butte, the President had a speech to deliver on revived business prosperity. Unfortunately he was taken to a gathering at a baseball park, where poor acoustics made it impossible to speak. So the speech was just handed to the press. At Helena that evening he spoke on labor conditions, condemning on one hand capitalists for a policy of "breaking down labor," and on the other hand arousing Samuel Gompers to say that the President...
Colonel Hilder's scheme is taken seriously by a large number of people interested in solving the domestic servant problem. Said Colonel Hilder : " We can't force the servant girl back into domestic service, but we can win her back. We must make her understand that her work is honorable. . . . Why not recruit an Order for domestic service on lines similar to the Red Cross? Call it the Gold Cross Order, and insist on a standard of efficiency and good conduct for membership. Have a recognized diploma and badge and invite women of good position to take...
...fight for electoral " reform" has taken a curious aspect: In the North the powerful Popular Party (Catholic) and in the South a royalist movement are the rallying points for the opposition to Mussolini's scheme...
...Paris, January, 1923: Bonar Law's scheme rejected by Poincaré. France occupied the Ruhr...
...decided that proportional representation is a good thing, but only for the minority. He has proposed that Italy be considered as a single district. The party getting the largest vote gets two-thirds of the seats, the other third to be divided proportionally among the other parties. Under this scheme, the Fascisti Party might have only one-third of the votes, but get two-thirds of the seats...