Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme that then seemed grandiose and daring beyond any dim 1937 Republican dreams gradually took shape under the still-sandy thatch that belies McNary's age (65). When all but a few bumbling die-hards believed the President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception...
...Next, Groesbeck pulled out of the TVA fight, selling four operating companies to Government competitors, leaving Willkie (of whose Commonwealth & Southern system Bond& Share is a 5% owner) to shift for himself, taking a loss of $2,433,209 on the deal. Finally, Groesbeck submitted to SEChairman Douglas a scheme for integrating his multi-regioned system which sprawls across 33 States, embraces 119 companies, and looks as hard to hook into one chain as the Appalachians and the Rockies...
...such celluloid researchers, Second Fiddle, which brings Sonja to Hollywood and wraps her in the toils of a publicity romance with Rudy Vallée-a scheme concocted by Pressagent Tyrone Power-will be full of delicious possibilities. For, as Sonja's fans well know, the liveliest Hollywood buzz-buzz of 1937 concerned her studio romance with Tyrone Power, cooked up by no pressagent but by smart little Darryl Zanuck himself. Actually, Second Fiddle is no more of a personal history than any other Henie movie. Like its predecessors, it is an artfully contrived showcase for the display...
...York Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close to RCA's front...
...Star organized a National Committee for Music Appreciation, plugged the Committee and music in general to the top of its bent, began distributing records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons, no subscription drives in connection with it. By last week, the Los Angeles Times, Buffalo Courier-Express, Portland (Ore.) Journal, Oakland Tribune, Philadelphia Record had signed up. In each case the Committee kept the origin of the records secret...