Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fletcher Savings & Trust Co., a neat, grey man of 62, Candidate Woollen has frequently displayed fortitude combined with his philosophy. He bolted the Bryan organization in 1896. He told farmers who deposit in his bank that, sorry though he was for them, he viewed the McNary-Haugen farm relief scheme with alarm. Similarly he has risked the displeasure of manufacturers by denouncing high tariff time and again...
Generous, the Government at Rome offered to defray the entire expense of building an electric railway from the nearest Italian junction to the frontier of San Marino. Surely, said Il Duce's agents last week, surely the Grand Council would cooperate in this great scheme of progress by appropriating the cost of completing the railway from the frontier straight in to the Borgo? Any other course would be to fly in the face of Providence, to refuse a generous offer, to antagonize the whole teeming sea of Italy above which San Marino rises like a silent islet...
...positions. . . ." Progress. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate on the Preparatory Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft Treaty of Disarmament"] for the reduction and limitation of armaments. . . . While it is true that the figures quantitatively representing armaments remain to be filled in; and, while this must prove a task of great difficulty, still broad outlines have been established. . . . Reservations have been made by various countries...
...Great Britain alone is preparing to suppress anarchy along the Yangtze. British naval officials have worked out a punitive scheme which is understood to have been submitted to London for approval, but which has not yet been sanctioned by Great Britain...
Briefly his objections to the present scheme of things are: (1) Athletics are too intense for a few. (2) The majority lacks opportunity for athletic participation. (3) Varsity athletes are too much in the limelight. (4) Cut throat competition is forced on the coaches by the football public. (5) Students and faculty have too little control of athletics...