Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other charges made by the Ambassador: organization of "murderous nocturnal combats" to further his political ambitions: "shameful" desertion of a group of "honest, sturdy peasants" in Argentina, whence he had taken them, and the failure of a bank that guaranteed his emigration scheme. Continued the Marques...
...periodic attack upon the methods of high school and college training has been made, this time by Henry W. Holmes in the Atlantic Monthly for October. His article, called. "Chaos or Cosmos in American Education", praises Harvard's method of study--the concentration and distribution scheme that bewails with vehemence the absence of this same system in the junior high and preparatory schools...
...third prize-total $155 for prizes. If the entrance fee were set at $1, the contest would be practically sure to pay its own way. The Women's National Democratic Club contest committee therefore announced those prizes and that entrance fee and sat back to watch their scheme succeed...
That Department was convinced that the women Democrats had meant no wrong, but could only conclude that, in their enthusiasm for slogans, mottoes, etc., the Women Democrats had failed to realize that their entrance-fee-and-prize-money scheme constituted what is known as a lottery. Lotteries, as everyone knows, are prohibited from the U. S. mails by law. The Post Office Department would gladly refrain from prosecuting if the women Democrats would cancel the entrance fee feature of their contest...
...Hungarians must abide by the general scheme of the Rumanian Agrarian Reform...