Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...losers. They have had control of too many raw products like wheat, oil, cotton and tobacco to take it coolly when the other fellow happens to get something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce something like the scheme the British are using with rubber, our farm difficulties would be solved.* Both the British and the Democrats in Congress pointed to the U. S. high tariff as an instance of a similar policy of protection to native industries...
...happens that the British rubber scheme involves an export tax. Imposition of export taxes is forbidden by the U. S. constitution...
...wrangling ensued behind closed doors. Despatches reported that the causes of dissension within the Government itself were two: 1) The refusal of the Cartellist Ministers,* headed by Minister of the Interior Chautemps, to approve the heavy increase in indirect taxation which is the keynote of M. Doumer's scheme. 2) The alleged success of M. Herriot in bringing M. Blum, the leader of the Unified Socialists (TIME, Nov. 23) back into the Cartel. Since the present Briand Government was formed on the basis of a majority in the Chamber which depended upon the Blum faction's having veered away from...
...many children will read this little ad this week? We want you to tell the Press man the date of your birthday. He has a little scheme in mind that will please you. Bring in your birthday dates...
After this defiance Briand and Doumer were reported to have ensconced themselves in privacy and pondered well plans for "indirect taxation," which it is hoped will prove more acceptable to the Deputies and the electorate than M. Loucheur's scheme to extract eight billion francs a year from such direct and obnoxious sources as an increased tax on wine, tobacco and incomes...