Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recurrence of payroll robberies in Manhattan has led the Merchants' Association to investigate the desirability of paying employes by check instead of with cash. The Association has discovered that "generally speaking, employers liked the scheme, employes viewed it with disfavor, and the banks were on the fence...
...Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg suggested that, in the event of sanctions being necessary, the Powers concerned should seek the advice of experts as to the probable economic effect of the contemplated measures against Germany before putting them into operation, in order not to interfere with the Experts' scheme. Neither the Theunis proposal nor the Kellogg pro- posal met with any success...
...Solozano, Conservative, for President for the next Constitutional term and Juan Bautista Sacasa, Liberal, for Vice President, and ask me to receive and forward their wishes to know whether the State Department would look with favor on the alliance for the organization of National Government. This being an honest scheme I respectfully apply to Your Excellency with a request for an early answer. Distinguished consideration...
Details of this scheme have yet to be laid, and there is no possibility of their being hatched before the Autumn, when "the department for the non-vocational education of adult persons beyond the limits of the University" will start to lay its educative plans in real earnest...
...Bulgarian, recently celebrated his 80th birthday. For some 55 years he has devoted himself to the service of his country. In 1881 he conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, became co-founder with the Greek leader, Eleutherios Venizelos, of the Balkan League, and with him hatched many a scheme for extending the frontiers of Serbia and Greece. With the signing of peace in 1918 his dreams were realized. Serbia grew into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, i Slovenaca), but he found himself faced with opposition from Montenegrins and Croatians, who strongly objected...