Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...
...American Caravan, first appearing in 1927, put out by its present board of editors and Critic Van Wyck Brooks, aimed to provide a "literary ferment" by publishing samples of the more advanced American literature, which otherwise readers of the Red Book might never know existed. The scheme took. The American Caravan has become an annual fixture. Among its contributors have been: Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Morley Callaghan, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Paul Green. Authors Evelyn Scott and Paul Green are again represented in the present edition...
...Scheme No. 1 concerned the Bankers' Capital Corp. which recently failed, attributing its collapse to low levels of bank stocks. Investigation indicated that Bankers' Capital, instead of dealing in bank stocks, formed affiliated companies, buying stock in one and then selling it at a profit to another. In turn the affiliates used their resources to support the market in Bankers' Capital stock. From this procession of intramural deals Bankers' Capital last year earned enough to pay a special dividend of $17 a share ($2,000,000). Outstanding stock of Bankers' Capital and affiliated companies came...
...Scheme No. 2 involved William T. Kemper, for some years Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them...
...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...