Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years. Later, when a Navy veteran ran amuck and raped a minor, George defended him in court as his pastor, though no local attorney would take the case for less than $5,000, and won him probation. When the city council seemed about to kill a federal housing scheme in deference to real-estate interests, Pastor George, a realtor's son himself, blew his Presbyterian top at a council session and forced them to back down...
Hardly had Selective Service brought out its new scheme to defer bright college students (TIME, April 9) when everybody began talking at once. In all the din, it was hard to find anyone who was really for the idea. Presidents of the Ivy League's Big Three all declared against it: Harvard's Conant called it undemocratic; Princeton's Dodds said it was wrong for the nation; Yale's Griswold, less opposed to it, feared that all the hubbub would fan "anti-intellectualism...
...horses run, they have been swarming past his box-office window, anyway. Recalling that Bank Nite netted its inventors more than $1,000,000, enterprising Exhibitor Patrick has already applied for a patent on his new gimmick, has received 100 applications from. Colorado theaters that want to lease his scheme, expects to set up a national leasing system within a few months...
...racetrack tout known as the Lemon Drop Kid, Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning...
...rationale behind the new scheme, it is believed, is that seminars for credit will provide more incentive for participation than the non-credit group tutorial, and that they will, by their very nature, be better organized and hence more valuable. Permanent faculty members, as well as instructors and lecturers, would be included in the seminar program