Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the price fixing scheme was voted down it is not considered dead and is likely to find its way before Congress next Fall, where several similar proposals are already pending...
...WRONG SHADOW-Harold Brighouse-McBride ($2.00). Two clerks, Bassett and Wyler, scheme to become millionaires by inventing a new patent medicine. They quarrel and Wyler disappears, leaving behind a formula which he had imagined to be a fizzle but which Bassett discovers, uses and builds upon it a very substantial fortune. But his grapes are sour-he feels he owes at least half his fortune to Wyler. Wyler cannot be found, but his ectoplasm haunts Bassett's conscience. He does his best to salve said conscience, but ineffectively-and then, just at the wrong moment, Wyler reappears. However...
...behalf of "the international bankers" to clergymen asking them to support the World Court; that the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ was "inspired by the State Department" to endorse the Court that; "the Rockefellers, it is understood, are aiding in the business of promoting the World Court scheme...
Cecil Treaty. The League of Nations Commission for the Reduction of Armaments considered a treaty propounded by Lord Robert Cecil. So much criticism was hurled at the scheme that the discussion was finished without coming to a vote. Another discussion will take place later...
...Sweden this year is the Gothenburg Jubilee Exposition which opened on May 8 and which will continue until September 30. It includes unusually good educational, historical, archaeological and fine and applied arts exhibits. The educational exhibits will illustrate in models, charts, photographs and printed matter, the Swedish educational scheme, including a section on the "sloyd" or manual training system in the schools. This "sloyd" is of great significance in the art handicraft and industrial art movement which has taken such great strides in Sweden during the past decade...