Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business executives should be paid according to a balanced scheme of compensation, if they are to be happy in their work, to receive fair returns for their contributions to society, and to serve their employees satisfactorily, John C. Baker, associate director of Research in the Business School, believes...
Died. Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 72, tiny cinemaster, pioneer producer of the first full-length photoplay, Traffic In Souls (1912), the first $1,000,000 picture, Foolish Wives (1922), originator of the publicity-bountiful scheme of calling popular actors "stars"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, Calif...
...Hara's moral scheme is dependable as far as it goes. But his writing is limited by the excellence of his dislikes. His ear for heeltalk is so mercilessly accurate that some of the stories depend on that alone (e.g., "But one night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...
...meet objections of non-reliefers with low incomes, Milo Perkins revealed that Pottawatomie County, Okla., embracing Shawnee, will experiment with a modified scheme whereby all non-reliefers whose total family income is less than $19.50 per week may become eligible, after certification by their employers, the Chamber of Commerce and the banks, to buy the orange (paid) and thus get as a bonus blue (free) stamps with which to gnaw away at 1939 farm produce surpluses...
...magnums of purple ink in praise of totalitarianism. In The Aeroplane for July 5 he finally rared back and delivered this sockdolager: "Even the misguided English Foreign Policy which tried to make an enemy of Italy over the Abyssinian business, instead of adopting Sir Samuel Hoare's sensible scheme for splitting Abyssinia between Italy, France and ourselves, has failed to destroy Italian friendliness. But then, naturally, the Italian people do not read English newspapers, whereby they are spared much...