Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budget system for the collection of funds to cover the various Student Council, class, and Phillips Brooks House Association expenses was inaugurated yesterday by the Freshmen. The amount collected from 1930 was sufficient to suggest the complete success of the scheme provided the upper three classes give in similar proportion...
...Voters' Leagues, come and sit on the lawn. Then the officeholder or office-seeker would make a speech to them which would be broadcast through the land. But this summer, Mr. Coolidge has hit upon a new method of influencing the public-and a clever one too. His scheme has two essentials...
Loose Ankles. Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos...
...plan is: that banks, insurance companies, mortgage loan concerns form a pool of $100,000,000 which will be loaned to cooperative marketing organizations for the financing and marketing of farm products at increased prices. Herbert Hoover is said to have hatched the scheme, intends to call a conference of farmers, financiers, government officials to nourish...
...relief, or aviation. Last week it was mostly aviation with a dash of farm relief thrown in (see THE PRESIDENCY, p. 5). Herbert Hoover has a brain that works in vast, sweeping programs. He showed Mr. Coolidge a plan for commercial aviation that made the Berlin-Byzantine-Bagdad railroad scheme look like the Toonerville Trolley. Mr. Coolidge approved...