Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow (see p. 13). Amid the brutal horrors perpetrated in the native quarters of these cities there was just one oasis of succor for Chinese, the "safety zone." At Shanghai year ago a square-bearded, black-robed, one-armed French Jesuit, Father Jacquinot de Besange, originated the safety zone scheme. Colorful, 60-year-old Father Jacquinot, aristocrat by birth, prevailed upon Chinese and Japanese military heads to keep the Nantao area, the old native city next the International Settlement, free of fighting and bombardment. This area, dubbed the Jacquinot Zone, sheltered 250,000 refugee Chinese. Last week...
California's Coffey Plan. Unopposed by the rebellious California State Medical Association, the carefully detailed scheme of burly, pugnacious, 70-year-old Walter Bernard Coffey,* was recently accepted by the San Francisco County Medical Society, modified to embrace 12,000 San Francisco municipal workers and their families...
...Coffey's scheme is intended for the entire State, divides members into three groups: 1) voluntary employed members with incomes under $3,000 a year, who pay $2.50 per person per month (children $1) for medical and hospital care; 2) the "medically indigent": voluntary employed groups with incomes under $800 a year (for this group State or Federal relief money would pay 60% of the rates and doctors would receive 50% less money for their services than in the first group); 3) unemployed and relief groups, financed entirely by State, Federal or municipal aid, or by charity, with doctors...
...just as deserving of a University subsidy: a money grant which would enable it to hire a manager, to stage more elaborate productions, to secure better directors. As much as money, however, does the Society need a charitable appreciation, by undergraduates, of its true place in the University scheme...
...capitalize on celebrities who know little about acting, the cinema long ago adopted the technique of casting them in roles related to but not identical with their activities in real life. This scheme has worked well with such heterogeneous oddities as the Dionnes, Sonja Henie, Lily Pons and Max Baer. The Arkansas Traveler can be regarded as another example of the same school. Robin Burns is a 42-year-old Arkansan who grew up in Van Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns...