Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George's automobile sped toward Kingsway Hall, Lon, where 1,500 delegates of his party (Liberal) were assembling to decide whether they would support his well-advertised Land Tenure Reform scheme (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). Mr. George's motor accidentally crashed into one of the stanchions of the hall, stopped. Mr. George stepped out of the wreckage, entered the hall...
Farmer Liberal enthusiasts for his scheme virtually to nationalize the land applauded such sentiments as those uttered by one Mr. Lovel of Somersetshire...
With all his eloquence he labored to bring the meeting around to indorse that compromise. At the eleventh hour he succeeded. Critics opined, however, that only by a miracle can the depleted "corporal's guard" of Liberals left to Leader George succeed in getting his scheme through Parliament...
...voted to accept the Rothschild student travel scheme which will permit 400 American college undergraduates to go to Europe next summer for study and travel in foreign colleges and to end up at the congress of the Confederation International des Etudiants which will be held in Prague in the fall. A travel committee composed of Marion Breckenridge of Vassar, Lewis Fox Princeton '26, and F.V. Field '27 was appointed...
Finance Minister Doumer smiled grimly at their discomfiture. If the Cartel measure gradually evaporates while the Chamber almost literally boils, so much the better for the Government measure, which has not yet even come up for consideration. At the same time it is quite evident that the Government scheme may be reduced to a jumble of absurdities by the same process. With a heavy heart M. Doumer pronounced a sour dictum upon last week's performance of Les Folies Bourbon: It would seem that in this Chamber a majority can always be found to kill any proposal whatever...