Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is another picture in between, which is of vital interest to the whole scheme of national defense, and of tremendous import to the safety of our country. The difference between the plotted curve of production and that of munitions as they must be supplied to make men effective in case of war, is such that it would take almost a year to balance them, and wars can be won or lost many times during those months...
...order to overrule the Committee he would have to go before the Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee was supposed to reflect the temper of the Chamber. Surely now, M. Briand must yield...
Early in December the President announced in his message to Congress that the railways and their employes were working together to arrive at a scheme for settling their disputes which would be satisfactory to both, and when the scheme was completed it should be enacted into...
Last week the scheme was completed. Representatives of both parties called at the White House and presented their plan. They were W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania; W. N. Doak, official representative of the Railroad Trainmen; D. B. Robertson, President of the Firemen and Enginemen; B. M. Jewell, President of the Railway Employes Department, A. F. of L. Later Senator Jim Watson, of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, dined at the White House. Then he introduced into the Senate a bill embodying the scheme...
...Norwalk, Conn., one Joseph Beres, restaurant proprietor, went out duck shooting with a buddy. All day they crouched in a blind. Few ducks came their way. Proprietor Beres grew restless, racked his brains for diversion, hit upon a scheme. Taking a 50-cent piece out of his pocket, he said to his friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew...