Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like John D. Rockefeller Sr. in oil, he forced railroads to rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part of a slaughtered animal ?flesh, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, bristles, offal, everything "except the squeal." But more than this, he belonged to the band of giants of his time?Henry H. Rogers (Standard Oil); John W. Gates, speculator from California; August Belmont, Charles...
...tuition now in existence at Kent School where no boy is excluded because of parental inability to support him, where several parents pay as much as twice the tuition fee, and where the average fee is well over that the school sets as a standard. Objection to this scheme on the grounds of its setting up artificial distinction between students would hardly be borne out by experience at Kent--and in a school of 250, such danger would be greater than in a college of 3000. But there is a very valid objection in that the personal touch necessary between...
...place of the 17 specific fields of concentration now in effect in the Department of History, a new list has been compiled. By this change a large number of the present fields have been subdivided, and the scheme of things so revised that, commencing next fall, the department will offer 25 specific fields...
...Chicago Tribune, potent newspaper, knowing that the best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means...
...Heaven-Tappers are a lot of crooks who draw money from Virginia moonshiners in return for synthetic religion. Their scheme: to invade the domains of the desperate distillers bearing with them the priestly emoluments of a fantastic religious cult; there to prattle assorted mysticisms garnered from better established sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover...