Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheme designed to give each person involved a return of $10,240 on a ten dollar investment hit at least 164 students in the University some time yesterday...
...decision on the FCC proposal is expected until next spring. Deadline for briefs against the scheme has been advanced to January 3, 1955, from August...
...Arboretum began to question it, too. The Overseers referred the question to the Edmonds Committee, which in turn requested the services of an independent lawyer. The Corporation retained Alfred P. Lowell, the first of the many legal guns that have reported on this issue. He upheld the scheme on almost every point...
...tomato-tossing, but by that time Averell Harriman had again enraged Ives. To avoid conflict with the Jewish holidays, New York's registration had been split into two periods. This device has been employed by Democratic state administrations in the past, but Harriman read into it a diabolical scheme this year to confuse the voters and keep registration down. Roared Irving Ives: "These Tammany-picked candidates, to hide their ignorance of state affairs, have fallen back on the last resource of sordid politics . . . This year they are so desperate and contemptible that they have sunk to the level...
...Southern publishers, under which they agreed to buy the mill's entire newsprint output for the next 15 years. With that accomplished, it was comparatively easy for Bowater to get a "certificate of necessity" (required during the Korean war) from the Government, though U.S. papermakers vigorously opposed his scheme...