Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fees. "The medical man who deceives his patient by some scheme of division of fees might just as well pick his patient's pockets. This [such evils] should be attacked without any sensationalism, and certainly without any publicity."? Dr. Arthur Dean Sevan, Chicago...
...settled in the affirmative. The Senate by a vote of 76-17 had decided that the U. S. should enter the World Court with five reservations. Notes were sent to the Adherent Powers; scarcely an answer came back; Europe was not willing to accept glibly the U. S. scheme of entrance. Early last autumn the Adherent Powers met at Geneva, attached counter-reservations to the U. S. reservations. Several Senators who had voted for the World Court did an about-face. President Coolidge in his Kansas City speech (TIME, Nov. 22) said that, unless the U. S. reservations were accepted...
...important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because obviously he was clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials. What if the banker put this clerk in charge of a Florida boom scheme, which became such a prodigious success that Floridans begged the promoter to become their Senator? What if the banker ordered him to accept, so that, by his one passionate theft, a man with a slave's psychology became an Honorable, eligible for the highest office in the land, certain to have...
...decorative scheme of the auditorium naturally affects the general illumination. Gilt and silver even in subdued light may produce annoying reflections and, in some instances, these are responsible for an unfortunately low degree of lighting...
Over against the McNary-Haugen scheme is the position assumed by the Administration. It favors the extension of co-operative marketing for farmers but by farmers. In this school of thought, the only proper role for the Federal Government is to offer advice and disseminate information...