Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters may then approve or reject the entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but with no chance to vote for or against individual candidates. Rejection of the entire list is considered outside the realm of practical politics, and the new system amounts to a scheme for maintaining Fascismo permanently in Power...
...various parts of the country become more numerous and varied every year. For its reports on business conditions the Harvard Business School has become especially noteworthy. With the recent increase in numbers it has made another stride in advance and one in keeping with its value in the present scheme of things...
While I was walking down by the rivet yesterday I saw something which gave me an idea I think your readers might be interested in. Of course I don't know much about Harvard or Cambridge yet, but it seems to me that this scheme would be pretty impressive if it could be carried through...
Some such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...
...scheme was made public by General John H. Sherburne of Brookline, Mass., one of Manufacturer Leach's competitors for the nomination. General Sherburne cried out about "a scandal which would be comparable with the scandals in Illinois and Pennsylvania. . . . In a year when our supreme effort is being directed toward the carrying of Massachusetts for Herbert Hoover by an emphatic majority, we can ill afford a repetition of the Vare or Smith disgraces...