Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow circus performers noticed that Otto Witte bore a striking resemblance to Halim Eddine, and then and there the whole beautiful scheme sprang full-blown to Otto's mind. In no time at all a pair of telegrams, purportedly originating in Constantinople, were on their way to Essad Pasha, Albanian-born commander of Turkish forces in the Durazzo area. One telegram was signed "Sultan" and the other "High Command," but both carried the same news: "Prince Halim Eddine arriving Albania, will assume command all troops stationed there...
...night's nightclubbing. As Kay paces in the wee hours, Rex reaches philosophically for the brandy. "After all," he muses, "it isn't how much we drink that matters. It's how much she drinks." Actress Kendall herself, in the midst of preparing a lunatic scheme to trap the cad, pauses long enough to exclaim: "Isn't this tremendous...
...take more courses and give them the feeling that college education was not merely a convention that had gone on and would continue in the same ritualized manner decade after decade. Brown is now quite at home in its IC (Identification and Criticism of Ideas) plan, an ingenious scheme of middle-sized seminars for freshmen and sophomores, with reading and discussion of the great ideas which at Harvard are doled out in large General Education lectures...
...scheme was to issue new shares of Cornucopia, swap them for stock in the proposed subsidiaries. That part of the deal never got off the ground. Smelling a rat, SEC stepped in, and refused to clear a proxy statement to get existing shareholders' permission for the issue. Meanwhile the American Exchange had suspended Cornucopia from trading for failure to file required financial statements. Nevertheless, even though Belle & Co. only held options, they were able to install officers in some of the companies (making textiles, hot-water heaters and electronics, a printing plant, real estate, etc.) and sweet-talk...
...great trick-and growing danger-of such a scheme is to keep the balloon expanding, paying off one loan with another. But when SEC moved in and started investigating, there was nothing to do but get out-quickly. A month ago Belle apparently started systematically looting the companies. As a sample of his thoroughness, he even tried to get the employees' pension funds of one of the companies, Troop Water Heater Co. Though the bank that held the funds in trust refused to go along, Belle got partial revenge. All but about $900 of the final week...