Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This curriculum is interesting if only as a complete antithesis in theory to the self-determination and liberality of choice offered here. Undoubtedly this arbitrary scheme of education will be unpopular with radicals and liberals. Many will support President Conant's statement in 1936 that he was "not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump," and the dread word Fascist may even be read into...
...audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from a psychopathic ward, Ann hatches a scheme to get him fired. In the big, happy finale, superpressagent Wright Boyes (a ringer for Dexter Fellows) sends them off with good wishes for a long life of headlining with fine medium-sized circuses...
...development of our teaching scheme in schools of all categories is of such an anti-Christian-Jewish type that the growing generation will be forewarned against the blackcoat swindle. And you should also remember that even in the Catholic Church there are sincere Germans working as priests, who are utterly devoted to the National-Socialist philosophy. With their help, we shall occupy the last- and, I admit, extremely solid-positions of the Church...
...final desparation Thomas Leary hit upon one final scheme. He attempted to got President F. D. Roosevelt to come to Cambridge and make a speech to purge his opponent; Leary was sure his opponent would walk to victory...
...every-Thursday" for every retired Californian over 50 is the golden promise which fortnight ago won Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...