Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real estate developer's plan to put seven or eight apartment houses and a civic-center-auditorium on a platform above the Charles River Basin met objection yesterday as a "grandiose scheme" to create a value for essentially worthless land...
...while he and his special Cabinet committee on oil imports study the OCDM recommendations. These are reported to include a limit on imports of crude oil and other petroleum products of 1,025,000 bbl. daily, compared to 1,113,600 bbl. daily under the voluntary system. The compulsory scheme would be enforced by a Government administrative agency. Other recommendations made by OCDM reportedly call for1) a sliding scale of import quotas for smaller oil companies, based on the imports between March1 and Sept.1, 1958; 2) no cuts of more than 20% from voluntary quotas for any major importer...
...Gabriel Faure. Written near the end of the 19th Century, this hauntingly beautiful score stands apart, almost completely detached from the influences of the late Romantic era. It is a brooding, restless piece, characterized by tentative, unresolved progressions, chromatic exploration, repeated figures, and a limited but unusual harmonic scheme. Above all it illustrates Faure's extremely delicate feeling for both line and texture, his carefully balanced sense of structure and climax...
Brannan Revisited. The failure of Congress and the Administration to cope with the farm scandal has revived talk among Democrats about the once-buried Brannan plan, devised in 1949 by Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...