Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general scheme is the same as the 1925 committee adopted last year, but there are a few important changes in detail. These changes make for a fairer allotment, and it is felt by the committee that they are worth the extra trouble entailed for the individual applicants. The chairmen of the several groups will find their duties more complicated than in the past, and the committee has suggested that the chairmen go over the situation carefully with some committee member...
...committee is of the unanimous opinion that the same general scheme of allotment that the 1925 committee adopted should again be followed. This system was based on a draw, and the rooms were assigned strictly by lot, without regard to the prominence of the men nor to the theory of "congenial entries", under the cover of which former committees in many cases showed favoritism, which the present committee believes to be undemocratic...
...Eliot quotes the biologists to the effect that Jews are prepotent in intermarriage (the implication being that this is the sorest spot in the whole scheme). I mention another who maintains that fusion of Nordic and Jewish stock produces the finest product yet known to "civilization." What Dr. Eliot maintains as fact then, I hold to be, as yet, mere opinion...
...Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, famed composers of jazz, to submit a jazz opera for production in the very throne room of music. Irving-Berlin would "give his right arm to do it," but feels technically unfit. Jerome Kern, who refused to try an opera six years ago, favors the scheme, whether he or another carries it out. George Gershwin, whose orchestral piece, A Rhapsody in Blue, is so far jazz's loftiest flight, is regarded as probably the best-equipped to comply with the demands of operatic composition...
...Nation-wide railway strike, which started a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 17) and had as two of its principal effects the resignation of Chancellor Ignaz Seipel and a threat to the League of Nations' reconstruction scheme, was ended. Due to the strike's tremendous unpopularity, it was believed that the strikers were utterly defeated. Following the settlement, the Central Committee of Parliament - a body with wide powers - requested Chancellor Seipel to carry on. The Chancellor accepted on condition that the opposition parties would pledge themselves to support the League's reconstruction plan. The necessary assurances were anticipated...