Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heads of the 55 states represented at the Assembly of the League of Nations had been invited?only those from the 27 countries broadly classifiable as "European"*. As a jovial host to these diplomatic neighbors M. Briand had unfolded a little further his imposing scheme for a "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
What astute B'rer Briand really wanted was to get from his guests an endorsement of his scheme which should be unanimous, however vague. Therefore the food and wine were of first importance. No gourmet himself, M. Briand had the menu prepared by M. Aimé Leroy, a noted epicure who is also French Consul-Genera] in Geneva...
...South America? Not at all. He had used the money to pay to other banks money which his Bank of Telluride owed them. He had robbed Peter (the six Manhattan banks) to pay Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been faced with dwindling deposits and threatened collapse. The Bank of Telluride was gainer by almost a halfmillion; the six Manhattan banks were losers by a halfmillion...
Just one year ago, Russia's famed "Man of Steel," Dictator Josef Stalin, inaugurated his drastic "Five Year Economic Program," an impressive scheme of industrial and agricultural expansion by which, by 1933, he proposed to make the Soviet Union entirely self-supporting and independent of the outside capitalistic world. Last week Dictator Stalin announced his budget for 1930, published figures which, if honest, showed astounding progress made during the first of his Five Years...
Coal Is Trump. Of course such ringing blarney was not the only trump in the hand of Privy Seal Jim (one of the best bridge players in London and always for highest stakes). His long suit was a scheme which he privately unfolded to that shrewd though cherub-faced statesman Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister in Canada...