Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms" circulated by thousands in the public schools of several states to foster the idea that government-operation of light, gas and power companies is un-American if not Bolshevistic. This school-book scheme appeared to have been originated by Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. The chief propagandist of the industry has been the National Electric Light Association. Citizens awaited completion of the Trade Commission's investigation and a final verdict from Commission and President. . . . In Manhattan, President Bayard F. Pope...
...hard up. Lake Forest taxes were so high that Mr. Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
Muckrakers? have made much of the way Mr. Rockefeller bought out competitors. According to Miss Tarbell, he would go to a refiner and say: "You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business. There is no chance for anyone outside. But we are going to give everybody a chance to come in. You are to turn over your refinery to my appraisers, and I will give you Standard Oil Co. stock or cash, as you prefer, for the value we put upon it. I advise you to take the stock...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
...name (Iowa) again joined Senator McNary's (Oregon) as the author of what, in principle, was voted down once and shelved once by the 68th Congress, voted down and then passed by the 69th Congress, and finally vetoed last year by President Coolidge. The controversial nub of the scheme is illustrated in the pig-selling problem set up above. The pig men are U. S. farmers-raisers of livestock, grain, cotton, tobacco. The philanthropist is the U. S. President Coolidge has been willing that the Government should set up a loan fund and a farm board to administer...