Word: scheme
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Senator Pepper obliged the Republican irreconcilables by propounding a scheme for U. S. entry into the Permanent Court of International Justice according to their tastes (TIME, June 2). His schemes involved making 16 Amendments to the statute by which the League of Nations founded the Court. These were in addition to a group of reservations similar to those proposed by President Harding when he advocated entering the Court. Mr. Pepper asserted that President Coolidge would approve the new proposal...
Gaston B. Means, ex-supersleuth ot the Department of Justice, testified that Secretary Mellon had had a part in an illegal scheme to withdraw liquor from bonded warehouses. Said Mr. Means: "Mellon is the arch enemy of the Government, the arch traitor. Daugherty is a much higher class man, a much finer man than Mellon. Mr. Mellon was born grabbing dollars...
...extensive written report to the Committee, Harris Fahnestock Jr. '27, one of the leading members of the Wireless Club, outlined the scheme in detail...
...alternate scheme calls for a broadcasting station on the ground with 80-foot poles, but the Stadium proposal is regarded with greater favor by both the Athletic Committee and the Wireless Club. In either case, the Club plans to establish a regular broadcasting service which would send out detailed reports of all football games, baseball games, or track meets, as well as other bulletins on University affairs...
Taken as a whole, the idea is one which staggers the imagination both by its simplicity and by its brilliant possibilities. But like most sudden visions, if draws in its wake a host of practical obstacles which may very well prevent its ultimate fulfillment. Captain Creed has outlined a scheme of enormous potentialities, but he has left to those who follow after the monumental labor of arranging the details; and many of these already shadow forth the suggestion that they will present difficulties of mountainous proportions. It is even conceivable that the principle itself will miscarry; the occasions on which...