Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Pope Pius last week blessed President Juan Peron's scheme for increasing Argentina's population from 14 to 20 millions in 10 years by admitting "selected" immigrants from Europe...
...More power to TIME, or, to any other publication that realizes the place of the small town and its people in the scheme of things...
...World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct demobilization of the swollen Navy, serving as assistant chief of BuPers (Bureau of Naval Personnel). If past averages hold, he'll spend about three years as superintendent...
...sent its researchers bustling off into the early days of the Republic for a talc of the days when John Adams was President of the United States and Philadelphia was something more than a lengthy stop on the Congressional Limited run. The result is a triangle--not the scheme of the researchers, of course--involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under...
...songs are the show. There is little scheme or reason to the way they are strung together, but they are there, done up in some of Hollywood's best whipped-cream arrangements, and spiced with song-and-dance people who seem to understand what Kern was singing about. There are plain actors and a story in "Till the Clouds Roll By," but the best idea is to sit back, close your eyes and just listen to the music. You won't miss a thing...