Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the farmers may make something out of this great scheme. One advantage will be on their side: they will have a virtual monopoly and moreover cannot be prosecuted for it under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act because farm organizations are expressly excluded from its provisions by a later law, the Capper-Volstead...
...Housing Scheme. Another of Labor's proteges was the Housing Scheme* a plan to build 2,500,000 houses during 15 years, to be paid for (according to the Labor Government) in 40 years at a total cost of more than $6,000,000,000'.** The bill which contains the Housing Scheme is expected to come up during the Autumn session of the House of Commons and not a few political critics have forecast the defeat of the Government. But such prophecies are premature; the Opposition may think it wiser to let the Government remain "in office," rather...
...Conservative Government had a Housing Scheme, cheaper and spread over only 20 years...
...substance of that agreement was a virtual compromise. Premier MacDonald, on his own initiative, had suggested to the invites of the Premiers' Conference a scheme to make the Permanent Court of International Justice ultimately responsible for deciding possible default by Germany under the Experts' Plan...
However, M. Herriot's Opposition, and, it was feared, some of the Government parties, saw in the British Premier's scheme the snapping of a vital thread which enabled France to control reparations questions through the Reparations Commission (TIME, July 14). The Premier was forced to see the logic of this argument, and in order to clear the matter up the two Premiers decided...