Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of France. Since the Painlevé Cabinet superseded that of M. Herriot (TIME, Apr. 27) he has fought a stubborn but losing battle to balance the French budget without resorting to inflation or a levy upon capital (TIME, May 25), and failed in his attempts to devise a scheme for paying off the country's debts...
...country's external debts, directing loans and exchange, supervising general disbursements and acting as Government liaison officer with the Banque de France. M. Bonnet, per contra, is to be responsible for national economy and the direction of taxation and the revenue service. Critics found this "divide and finance" scheme to be somewhat remindful of the theoretical abstractions in which its author used to indulge when he was a young mathematical genius lecturing at the Ecole Normale...
...Inventor LeRoy neglected to patent his machine. Others copied, patented, reaped. When William Fox opened a moving picture emporium in 14th Street, the scheme was still so much of a novelty that Inventor LeRoy asked: "Do you think this will be a success...
...Coffin has been urging the adoption of this system for several years, and has received support from R. W. P. Brown '98, backfield coach and strategist of the Bruin eleven. Coach Brown has just obtained the assent of Head Coach Robinson to try out the scheme in Saturday's game. Coach Whelan of B. U. agreed to the proposal some time...
...first," said Mr. Clive, "to hear of this scheme. I spent the summer in getting plays of both commercial and purely artistic interest. 'The Creaking Chair' is, of course, one of the commercial plays. At present it is playing to very profitable houses, and I am organizing an entirely new company to play it in New York...