Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosper. Since Ihe U.S. remains technically on a gold bullion standard, the Treasury must accept gold at $35 per ounce when offered. Biggest offerer remains South Africa, where production has not been restricted for fear of political repercussions. Much less excusably, the Government also maintains its silver purchase scheme, which holds the domestic price at an artificial 71?. However tough it may get about nonessential gold mining in the U.S., the Administration is still not tough enough to cope with the Congressional Silver bloc...
Soap opera went to work for the Government this week, on a grandiose double-life basis worked out by OWI. The scheme...
...Selected younger candidates will be added to Lampy's large-scale draft-dodging scheme," Eric Larrabee '43, secretary, added. "Partiality to 4-F's is already the guiding rule in choosing members of this immature joke-sheet." Speedball O'Shaughnessy of De Wolfe Street, long the official bootblack for the Ibis-nest adolescents, is being groomed for the presidency, according to a current rumor, but this was vigorously denied by Michael J. Sullivan...
...step has as its object the hope of incorporating Freshman activities more closely in the scheme of all College affairs, to attain an essential unity of all classes which is felt to be especially necessary in these times...
...Corps is jointly sponsored by WMC, Army, Navy, CAA, the U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission. But the main push came from the high schools themselves - for months they have urged such a scheme upon the Office of Education. Many a high school has already started its own unofficial victory corps. In Sandy Spring, Md., for example, the principal tore up his old curriculum, got his youngsters busy drilling, exercising, apple picking, bandage rolling, taking care of working mothers' children, doing the school's janitor work, studying flying...