Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stephenson had really lived in Dallas, and so had Hiram Evans, dentist, salesman, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. They used to work together. The Wizard told Mr. Stephenson the system and the blurb of the K. K. K. They hatched a scheme. For four years after that, D. C. Stephenson moved among the virgin fields of Indiana, getting members for the Klan. For every $10 initiation fee he was paid $4. He took in several hundred thousand members and made so much money that he got into trouble with the national Klan.* He was ready, he thought...
...diplomatic mist at Geneva, Switzerland, last week came a scheme to admit the U. S. to the World Court. A conference of the Court Adherent Powers decided to accept the five Senate reservations in toto, with a counter reservation on No. IV that "the signatory states acting together with at least a two-thirds majority should possess a corresponding right to withdraw their acceptance of the special conditions attached by the United States"; and with the suggestion than an "understanding" on No. V could be reached after the U. S. was in the Court. It is expected that...
Following the scheme which was originated two years ago, the Clubs will be divided into five divisions, the Banjo Club, the Mandolin Club, the Vocal Club, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Specialty Division. Each of these divisions is directed by a leader and a committee chosen by the officers. Each applicant is strongly urged to try out in as many of the divisions as possible, since this will afford a better opportunity of judging each man accurately. Men participating in two or more units are obviously of greater use to the Instrumental Clubs, although good players...
...response to the Budget to date has already proved the advantage of the new scheme from the point of view of efficiency and has given encouraging indications of its success financially. Here to or the duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance, caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. According to the Budget plan the Student Council will bill the individual student the amount designated on his pledge at the end of November...
...next group is made up of projects for which drives for funds now exist. The Law School expansion scheme and the plan for a church that shall be a war memorial to the Harvard dead come under this classification and their sponsors are busily engaged in raising the necessary funds, architects already having drawn tentative plans...