Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Andrew J. Volstead: "Every organization against Prohibition will support him. They are too shrewd to be scared by any protestation by the Governor that he is opposed to the saloon. They know that the policy that he has advocated will in the end restore the liquor traffic if the scheme he suggests is adopted...
Quotas. The managerial conferences ended with the impression that the Beaver Man is, more than ever, his own manager-in-chief. The Hooverlike scheme of vote quotas for each State to "shoot at" superseded Dr. Hubert Work's idea of specialized drives among women or in the South. Returning to Colorado, his own home State, Chairman Work proceeded to lecture the local G. O. P. Unless it ceased its internal quarreling he predicted "a greatly reduced majority, if any." He said: "You in Colorado have become careless of your party...
...Southwest. Led by Senator Hiram Johnson, southern Californians, especially in booming Los Angeles, have long sought to multiply their resources of water and waterpower by urging the Government to build and operate a $200,000,000 dam on the Colorado River. Six other States are affected by the scheme. The proposed site is at Boulder Canyon, between Arizona and Nevada. Interstate disputes have raged, arising from cultural, economic and political differences, and differences in engineering opinion. Finally, the issue between Government operation and privateering has entered...
...scheme was to form a money pool of shrewd, rich friends and buy out the scared liquor interests of Sweden for a song. The doctor's wife, a Baroness in her own right, and other influential connections at Court and among politicians, facilitated Schemer Bratt by contriving to postpone the enactment of national prohibition, while his pool bought out the liquor barons cheap...
...racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined O'Connor in the alien-running scheme. What he turned out to be after all only faintly interested slim audiences, their tympanic membranes offended by too-frequent gunfire. One James Hagan wrote the play, showed only that he knows crook-talk...