Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are difficulties to this scheme not the least of which is the fact that those who have been assigned permanent parking spaces in favorable locations are extremely reluctant to give them up. As Arthur D. Trottenberg, Manager of Operating Services, observes: "We have not yet been able to sell the idea of live parking...
...Scheme for Security. Elected governor on a fluke in 1954, re-elected last year, Orval Faubus was right where he wanted to be. He was the chief executive of a sovereign state; he hobnobbed with political bigwigs; he was, at last, looked up to. Orval Faubus planned to stay in Little Rock. Politics had given him position and respectability; he had nothing to go back to. But how would he hang on? Arkansas has a strong tradition against a third term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate...
...biography and his collected 1956 campaign speeches. At intervals, he thumped away at the man who beat him twice-and at some politicians in his own party. Stevenson openly disapproved of the civil rights compromise approved by Presidential Prospect Lyndon Johnson, snorted loudly at the independence and interdependence scheme for Algeria advanced by Presidential Prospect John Kennedy...
...dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that's one reason they're working so hard to keep it alive. But the full irony of Dean's plan to win fame and glory was that his fatal accident wasn't a part of the scheme. Yet, that really made the legend...
...farmers, and members of Congress too, favor a "two-price" plan under which 1) farmers would get 100% of parity for commodities sold for human use in the U.S., but 2) would get the free-market price for animal feeds and commodities sold for exports (a scheme sure to bring yowls against dumping from foreign countries...