Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus neither side has a consistent plan. What is needed is a broad, central scheme taking the best points of the liberals, fighting for labor, and the best of the conservatives, proponents of business. Give equal treatment to both. Italy, whatever its demerits, has solved the economic problem by its Corporations, which form a branch of the government, representing industries by both employers and employees. A modification, to supplant the Senate, would solve our problem of economic equality by putting labor and business on the same plane. It is only by a stern but broad measure, taking in the whole...
Committee members ate it up: this was good, red meat to outpost-hungry Congressmen. Frank Knox had to backtrack a little under questioning; such a scheme was not now under consideration, said he, and it was "what might be called wishful thinking...
...plan and thus save his own hide. Campaigner Young's battle cry: the plan is based on the "Dust Bowl" earnings of 1933-it must be changed. Charged tough, senior Bondholder Spokesman John Weiss Stedman: the-arguments are wholly fallacious . . . the proposals "are a tax-avoidance scheme...
...That scheme came to nothing. (De Gaulle suspected that it involved the Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne...
...assassinated, but no one suggested that kingship itself should be abolished. Man was made to worship God, but all else was made to serve man, and would do so as long as man did not give way to his passions and, by becoming a beast, disrupt the universal scheme...