Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the famed British Liberal, David Lloyd George, encountered heavy going when he attempted to secure the endorsement of the Liberal Candidates' Association for his new land nationalization scheme (TIME, Sept...
...Economy has played a large part in Colonel Sherrill's efficiency scheme; he has learned how to squeeze the eagle until it can be heard squealing down at the Treasury...
General rejoicing broke out on all hands, and a new era in the peace of Europe was widely heralded. The German diehards, however, at once set on foot a scheme to have the ratification so laboriously achieved declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the Reich. Their contentions are: 1) The Constitution of the Reich provides that the Reichstag shall determine whether or not Germany shall go to war, and can be changed only by an amendment requiring a two-thirds majority of the Reichstag; 2) The measure passed last week would make the League and not the Reichstag...
...profoundly impressed by the possibilities of the game which could bring forth so noble a display of courage and indomitable spirit. At the same time, there is a well-founded opinion at Harvard that football has become overemphasized in American colleges, so much so that the entire scheme of American education is thrown out of focus; and that the game itself is suffering from this unhealthy condition...
...four sweating palms were for M. Painlevé. Two hundred and fifty more or less clenched fists were against him. Once more the Radicals and Socialists had held together sufficiently to allow the Government to continue in office. Amid cheers and imprecations the debate upon the articles of the new scheme in detail got under way and threatened to continue...