Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this connection it is interesting that, according to the committee's report, a surprising number of Law School men are unwilling to help organize a similar cooperative. Probably there are several explanations, principally that the Andover scheme had not proved successful when the report was distributed, and secondarily because of what Life magazine so colorfully termed their "fierce" scholarship. Also, there was doubtless some feeling that if nothing were done from below, a wind-fall would suddenly descend from above, and "authorities" would place a dining hall in their laps...
...Jews could return to jobs, although not in Aryan enterprises, until a merciful emigration scheme is worked...
...earners for loss of life or injury and property owners for loss or damage of property "as far as circumstances permit" -i. e., as long as the treasury is able to pay. In order to keep vital trade going during a war, the Government has worked out an insurance scheme with Lloyd's of London and eight other insurance concerns, which will, in turn, be reinsured to a certain extent by the Government, to cover British merchantmen, their cargoes and the stock of goods stored in the country...
Last January i, Italy tried a new scheme to stimulate domestic production, already largely financed by taxes on U. S. films. Thought up by Minister of Popular Enlightenment Dino Alfieri, the scheme was to tax U. S. films even further by having them distributed in Italy not by their producers' agents but by a Government-financed monopoly. Last week it became apparent that the new scheme was another flop. Having tried it for a month, U. S. producers found the terms of the monopoly prohibitive, announced through Tsar Will Hays that they had entirely ceased distributing their pictures...
...Colonel Lindbergh denied any connection with the scheme...