Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knowland has reason to believe that he is on the right track. In liberal, freewheeling California, where Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight boasts heavy labor support, Big Bill has bluntly been running for the gubernatorial nomination on a right-to-work platform as well as a seven-point scheme for tightening of federal labor laws. Although he plans no federal right-to-work statute, Knowland's federal proposals are aimed at other specifics, e.g., restrictions on uses of union funds, guarantee of a secret ballot in union elections and strike votes...
...unalterably opposed to any such scheme - if only because revival of the hated Ottoman Empire, even in polite 20th century form, would surely set the Arab world aflame...
...novel Author Dudintsev describes, side by side with Lopatkin's progress, what is happening behind the scenes in ministries, bureaus and industrial institutes. All the timeservers and Organization Men in high places are aware of one thing-that a big shot in Moscow has a pet scheme of his own regarding drainpipes, and that no Soviet citizen should ever, if he values his security, "get in the way of influential people." As Bureaucrat Drozdov, the novel's villain, tells Lopatkin: "Your mistake consists in being an individual on his own. The lone wolf is out of date...
...Indiana school teacher. In the years just preceding the Civil War he deserts his college sweetheart to marry a designing Southern heiress. After war breaks out, she goes insane, crosses the lines with their young son, and ends up in a madhouse. Whereupon our hero hits upon the questionable scheme of enlisting in the Union Army so he can go south to find her. Of course he does, and after some further unlikely accidents it all ends happily enough...
...Gulf and Mississippi Power Companies; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. When the Atomic Energy Commission contracted with Middle South Utilities head Edgar Dixon and Yates to build a plant near Memphis to supply the AEC with power, the deal was bitterly attacked by public power proponents as a scheme to undercut TVA, became a major 1956 campaign issue...