Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Warren & Co. followed the scheme laid down by agile-minded Jimmy Byrnes in the Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further, said Mr. Pittman solemnly, special "radio passwords" are to be given each U. S. ship, one set for the Allies, another set for the Germans, to be used when they are "spoken" by belligerent naval vessels. To this scheme of warfare made easy the Navy Department and the Maritime Commission merely nodded embarrassed heads, mumbled something about being "too busy right...
...certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...
...announced also last night that the University's approval of the scheme came after it was outlined to President Conant this fall. In issuing an appeal for four annual scholarships, a goal of $15,000 has been set to put the plan in motion. An unsolicited $1000 has already been pledged...
...scheme or plan for the propagation of a doctrine or system of principles-Webster's New International Dictionary. * When Field Marshal von Blomberg, Minister of War, married his pretty secretary in January 1938, aristocratic General von Fritsch, Army Commander in Chief, protested strongly. When both were subsequently purged, the ranks of the conservative army group were cracked...