Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. Communist Party itself threw boulders across the track. It cooked up a ludicrous counter-propaganda scheme. The Commies could hardly come out and say they were against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Nor could they attack such backers of the train as Phil Murray, Bill Green or the Girl Scouts. So, in a memo from the party's educational headquarters, district leaders were instructed to tell whoever would listen that the "key backers" of the Freedom Train are "reactionary big businessmen" with a "demagogic purpose." Leaders were told to organize tours through...
Butler Suggested Scheme...
...Pigs. In Vermont's hills, he found friends to back him. Over apple pie & cheese, Hendricks unfolded the scheme to Poet Robert Frost. "I'm going to start a college, Bob," he said. Replied Frost: "I'll be durned. I always wanted to, myself...
Planners figured that the scheme would more than double present commercial production, would also mean development of new planes capable of handling heavy bulk loads. The services would benefit directly by tagging all federal-subsidized planes as part of the military reserve...
...Security Council table at Lake Success. Those who asked "How much good is U.N. in a showdown?" might soon have an answer. Russia's Gromyko had vetoed the mild U.S. resolution to set up a two-year border watch there. He threatened now to veto every other scheme the Council could invent to fasten the blame where it belonged-on Greece's Sovietsupported Balkan neighbors. What, then, could...