Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme in proportion to ability to pay; further tax reduction; abhorrence of the Mellon plan...
...this bureau is to be in the hands of William A. Brady and L. Lawrence Weber, prima facie evidence that there will be a strong effort to stump the speculators. Mr. Brady has long been known as a foe of this gentry; Mr. Weber recently proposed a feasible scheme whereby they could be laid...
...masters of 20 years ago are likely to be realized with the approval rather than the opposition of Congress. The easy money period now apparently inaugurated makes conditions auspicious as far as financing goes, and security dealers, investors and speculators are thumbing Professor William Z. Ripley's proposed scheme for rail mergers with eager interest...
...public by Sir Broderick to contribute capital to be used in purchasing wines and spirits and exporting them to a "rendezvous" 20 miles off the coast of the U. S. When the discussion of rum-running came up in the House of Commons, the Baronet's scheme was given considerable publicity and in some quarters sharply criticized...
...great scientists who laughed at Matthews' story included Edouard Branly, French physicist, who said that no concentration of known rays could produce the force claimed, and that scientists do not anticipate the discovery of new rays that can. Dr. John H. Morecroft, of Columbia University, says that no scheme for using rays destructively has yet advanced beyond that of Archimedes, who burned the Roman galleys in the seige of Syracuse by sun mirrors in the third Century B. C. Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, of the College of the City of New York, says that there are but five types...