Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distress of Germans does not seem to have been sufficiently great, or to have lasted long enough. The German people do not seem to be clever enough as yet to arise and fulfill their destiny. There is spreading among Germans a spineless nonresistance to the Anglo-U. S. scheme for a pan-Dawes Europe in which Germany and perhaps France seem destined to the status of tax-farmed debtor colonies...
...Politis-and many another. With addresses by the "lions" reserved to embellish a climax other delegates pronounced pithful remarks last week, which reverberated educationally. Paul Harvey revealed officially for the first time that the International Chamber of Commerce evolved, with collaboration of experts of the Dawes Plan committee, a scheme of revision for the entire Plan designed to facilitate reparations transfers. Just as the Dawes plan was protested at first but accepted as a working proposal," said Mr. Harvey, "so will this plan be accepted. . . . The public will not be consulted about putting it into action." The Dawes Revisions Scheme...
...Austen's pet scheme for abridging this difficulty is a World Court Conference called by the League of Nations (TIME, April 12, THE LEAGUE) ; but to which the U. S. has refused to send a delegate to "explain" the Senate's reservations (TIME, May 3, THE LEAGUE...
...funds and a "loan" from brewers to save a bank of his from collapsing. Though deprived of civic eligibility, he thumbed his nose and ran again in 1918 anyway. He even ran for President in 1920, getting 100,000 votes. Two years ago he conceived and executed his brilliant scheme of having his wife elected Governess on an Anti-Klan plank. An amnesty bill was ram med through the legislature to make him thoroughly respectable once more; and all might have been serene except that, as he sat at the executive desk helping his wife out, he was careless again...
Significance. It may be postulated that M. Dzerzhinsky's logical and politic scheme of industrial re-organization will encounter all but insuperable resistance at its fulcrums, the tousled heads of Soviet industrial managers. Despatches from Moscow report that the average tourist should allow a week in which to accomplish the formality of obtaining a pass to view the Kremlin. Similar to this are the often "well meaning" delays which are notorious in Soviet industry and were deemed characteristic of the Tsarol regime. Up to the present time no large group of Russians has ever been brought to abandon...