Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most of the territory which would be used for the scheme is uninhabitable," Whittlesey explained. "The chief difficulty is water, and not even the natives live there. Yet the high lands have a climate which Europeans could live in, and although Europeans would have difficulty with the climate and danger of disease, they could probably live on the coastal plains...
...some Nazis term it) are wanted to pay for such vital imports as Germany cannot get by barter deals. The Schwarze Korps, influential Nazi newsorgan of Adolf Hitler's personal Elite Guard and the Blackshirt Storm Troops, has openly hinted at the burgeoning of this gangster-blackmail scheme for several years...
Advertising, the flossy handmaiden of Big Business, has long tempted certain rapacious New Deal reformers. But with the U. S. still clinging to Freedom of the Press, nothing had been done about advertising (with the exception of liquor) until last week when Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold produced a scheme which, snorted Columnist David Lawrence, "makes the late Huey Long, who tried to put a tax on publications of large circulation, look like an amateur." Trust Buster Arnold's scheme was deftly dovetailed into the long-expected announcement by the Department of Justice that its anti-trust suits against...
...expressing his opinions in the most vigorous style. He did not like the predatory practices of English land-owners in Ireland. So he penned "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known astronomer named Partridge. So, posing as Isaac Bickerstaff, astronomer, he made some "Predictions for the Year 1708" which solemnly forecast the immediate...
...good feeling that the first hundred children will carry home on Saturday will be so inevitable, so natural, that one might suspect the University's publicity department of originating the scheme. Credit for the plan's conception and execution goes to Brooks House and William J. Bingham '16, himself once an active P. B. H. worker...