Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real difficulty lay in the abruptness of the post-card attack, and the lack of a sufficient barrage of publicity before it. The trouble was, as Mr. Kennedy intimates, that practically no one knew anything about the scheme until receiving the post-cards; and then none knew much more about it than before...
Finally I think it is a pity that Mr. Chipman should disparage a scheme, about which he knows nothing, to promote an organization about which he appears to know less, before it has had any sort of trial here, while similar schemes have had valuable results elsewhere. DAVID P. KENNEDY...
...type of democracy, historically speaking, there can be no such thing as democratic or antidemocratic. I have been against all the phenomenon of a parliamentary democracy which has corrupted and weakened the Italian state and threatened its very life, less violently but not less fatally, than any Socialist scheme of revolution. I am against the return to these systems, to their vices and corruptions, and if they obstinately call themselves democracy, then I am against that democracy...
...Baruch was quick to challenge the accuracy of Judge Gary's disclosure, and especially the Judge's inference that "it was a gigantic communistic scheme." According to Mr. Baruch, at the outbreak of the War the American steelmakers, flushed with great profits made on sales to European belligerents, wanted to charge the U. S. Government the same high prices as had been obtained from the Allies. To this Mr. Baruch strenuously objected. The War Industries Board passed a resolution to take over the steel plants "if the steel interests should not be willing to give their full cooperation...
...that Yale is very properly going to be in on the dedication. Nothing has been said yet as to what will happen in other years. Possibly a series of games to be played in New Haven and Providence on alternate years is planned. The only danger of such a scheme would be that with West Point also building a new stadium and with the likelihood of others being erected in the not too distant future the Athletic Association may find itself confronted with a choice between an embarrassment of away-from-home games and dropping some old and respected friends...