Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson licensing power over business and unrestricted right to buy and sell commodities-big-stick enforcement clauses. It created a fiveman board of review with veto power over Henderson's actions. The House insisted on keeping an inflationary three-point formula for farm prices, even added a parity scheme for fish. Finally passed by a 224-161 vote, the bill was now little more than a scrap of paper...
...scheme is so big that it takes two bills to hold it. One bill would give pensions ($12-$56 a month) to widows and children of all World War I veterans -not just those who died from wounds, but those who died in bed ten or 20 years afterward. For good measure, the bill would pension dead veterans' parents...
...second place, the people of the country are finally waking up to the fact that the word democracy has social and economic as well as political implications. We have a democratic governmental scheme. But, as has been pointed out for years, there is little that is equal in the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness between the worlds of upper and lower Park Avenue. Now, with a war for the preservation of this nonexistent concept on the nation's threshold, there is every likelihood that the long-awaited extension of democracy will come with the battles...
Hemmed in by reporters and photographers, John P. Marquand '15, yesterday presented the motion picture script of his best-selling novel, "H. M. Pulham, Esq." to the Widener Library Theatre Collection. The presentation was part of a publicity scheme intended to boost ticket sales of the M.G.M. picture, which opens in Boston tonight...
Hodder has two able Sophomores to count on here also. Tom Cowen and Olie Taylor are still green, but should have the ability to fit into the scheme of things quickly...