Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicos went to work on the $1,000,000 school budget. In 1941 the seven-man School Board fired 41 married women teachers, said that other teachers who married would also be ousted. "Economy," explained the Board. The teachers brought suit, charged that the firings were-part of a scheme to give jobs to favorites, collect kickbacks on salaries. The Board, they declared, might better economize by calling off useless work invented for a maintenance force which had swollen...
...Minister Charles Gavan Power is a wild Quebec Irishman who has made a zooming success of Canada's air training scheme, and does not know how good...
Critics sometimes caricature the program of security "from the cradle to the grave" as a beautiful scheme of living in luxury without working. This it is not. An adequate system of social security would become completely unworkable spread unemployment will not endure, unless we could look forward to an expanding economy with high levels of income and employment...
Sponsor of the new camps, established last December, is Brigadier General Edwin C. McNeil, 60-year-old onetime West Point law teacher and Assistant Judge Advocate General. The camps were an outgrowth of the old disciplinary-barracks (D.B.) scheme at Fort Leavenworth. The enlightened Leavenworth system (famed among old Army men for its "restored" enlisted men) had been set up when post-World War I investigations showed that some U.S. prison camps in France were inhuman institutions where soldier-prison ers were beaten, robbed and starved...
Familiar with other phases of New York's well-publicized civilian defense scheme, many a citizen has asked such questions about the one missing but vital detail. Finally they got an answer. New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals Edward M. Bernecker revealed his gigantic preparations in a speech before a United Hospital Fund conference...