Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persons as Business School graduates may soon be. The corresponding fate of the liberally educated but, for the most part, vaguely prepared college graduate can be imagined. But the philosophy behind the workings of the Office of Student Placement--as indicated in the purely educational respect of the symposium scheme--needs some revision of that fate is to be met with any sense of efficiency...
Subscription Radio is a scheme for listeners to subscribe to radio programs just as they subscribe to newspapers and periodicals. For a proposed 5? a day ($18.25 a year) subscribers could tune in on three types of FM broadcasts, all without advertising: 1) continuous classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) news, dramatic and educational programs. A broadcast "pig squeal" would prevent nonsubscribers from listening in; a device to silence the squeal would be attached to subscribers' sets...
...Commission of Fine Arts loudly disapproved the scheme, declaring that it would "permanently change the appearance of the south façade."* Pennsylvania's Congressman-Architect Frederick Muhlenberg rose to declare that the White House "was a heritage of the American people, not lightly or casually to be altered at the whim of any tenant." Indignant letters poured in to the Washington papers; cartoonists lampooned the plan. Crumped the New York Herald Tribune: " 'Back-porch Harry' is scarcely an appellation that a man would like to carry into a presidential campaign, even if he were impervious...
...first, they learned, the racketeers had used passports stolen from the Passport Office. The blank books were smuggled into Belgium, "validated" with a forged Foreign Office stamp, then sold to the highest bidders in Paris, Hamburg or Munich. When demand swamped supply, George and his associates hit on another scheme. Over many a pint in Glasgow pubs, they asked local folk to hand over their identity cards "to help a friend who wants to get to Eire." For a fiver, hundreds of Glaswegians did so. The card details, plus photographs of D.P. clients, were then used in filling out passport...
Circulating Millinery. In Paris, Madame la Comtesse Monique de la Moissonière launched a new fashion scheme: a "circulating library" for hats. From her stock of 100, women can rent the latest and zaniest at 500 francs for 24 hours (special offer: twelve hats a month for 3,000 francs). Said the countess: "This is my version of American mass production...