Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their newly elected Moderator, 55-year-old Insuranceman Philip F. Howerton of Charlotte, N.C., the delegates defeated a scheme to use churches as schools to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in the public schools. They voted 288 to 124 against a well-organized minority drive to abolish the denomination's anti-segregation-minded Council on Christian Relations, then read into the record a ringing statement on race...
Says Mr. Justice Douglas: "In our scheme of things the rights of man are unalienable. They come from the Creator, not from a President, a legislature or a court." And the U.S. Supreme Court recently affirmed the little-noticed but profoundly meaningful decision of a Pennsylvania court in a morals case, which said: "Our federal and state constitutions assume that the moral code which is part of God's order in this world exists as the substance of society...
Encouraging Setback. The federation scheme is anathema to French right-wingers, but it has long been accepted in principle by some French moderates, and in Paris last week it was the moderates who were gaining ground. Waspish Georges Bidault, the first aspirant to succeed fallen Premier Felix Gaillard (TIME, April 28), could not even persuade his own Popular Republican Party to support him in forming a government; in fact, only one of the party's 75 members in the Assembly had joined him in voting to bring down Gaillard. Having given Bidault and his policy of even harsher prosecution...
Eichmann's scheme for shoring Nazi military bankruptcy by drawing on the live blood bank of still-surviving Jews called for Jewish groups abroad-in London, Cairo, Istanbul and Washington-to get up the pengos, and arrange for the Nazis to turn them into 10,000 trucks full of chocolate, coffee, tea and soap...
They also discussed the variety of jobs still available through the office, including many new leads on Cape Cod resort and laundry jobs. Techniques for seeking all types of jobs were explained, concluding with the advice to "scheme carefully and intelligently...