Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric Co. to set both a sale and resale price on all incandescent electric bulbs manufactured under its patents. The General Electric Co. had entered into a manufacturing and selling arrangement with the Westinghouse Co. on this basis. The Government suit had contended that such a scheme was in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, and that a decision upholding it would destroy the force of the law in all cases involving patents. Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote the decision which upheld the action of a lower Federal court in Ohio...
...this squad there were at various times some seventy men who were benefited in a way they never have been before. I am sure I speak for all of them I thank you and the class team coaches for your excellent management of this scheme, and ask for its extension at least a week later next year...
...butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and four other members appointed by the President. Other farm relief plans have sought to take care of the crop surplus by government marketing aid, but Mr. Meredith's price-fixing scheme aims to eliminate the surplus by insuring a balanced production. Said he: "By raising and lowering the prices of these crops from year to year, as the law of supply and demand indicates, and relying upon the law of incentive, a balance can be kept and continuous surpluses avoided." Next...
...annoying thing about Hearstian scoops is that now and again they are "straight." Strangely enough the Philadelphia Public Ledger Foreign Service turned up an equally unique "scoop" to the effect that M. Tchitcherin would speed to Paris and there lay before Foreign Minister Briand a scheme for a Pan-Asiatic League to be set up in close harmony with the League of Nations...
Rosenwald Fund. In 1914, Julius Rosenwald, most notable of Chicago philanthropists, established a co-operative fund for helping southern Negroes to education. By report last week 3,400 school buildings have since been erected. Public school authorities have contributed $8,402,580 to the total cost of the scheme, white citizens $694,142, Negro citizens $3,110,410 and the Rosenwald Fund $2,621,814. Alfred K. Stern, executive director of the Fund, commenting on this report, stated in The Survey: "The most outstanding feature to my mind is the fact that the Negroes have contributed about as much...