Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two years the foundation has picked out twelve retired scholars, paid them an average of $7,500 a year, sent them off to continue their careers for a year on small liberal-arts campuses that might not otherwise have been able to afford such special talent. The scheme proved so appealing, in fact, that last year the New York Foundation joined the Whitney in a similar program. This week, as the two foundations jointly announced their selection of twelve new names for 1954, they had ample evidence from 1953 of just how successful their experiment has been...
...members, a device to obtain an American guarantee of their borders, but if it were ever put to a military test, the virtual uselessness of most of its component elements would quickly be demonstrated. The ruin of United States foreign policy by the collapse of the EDC scheme should be a final demonstration that collective security is a myth. This is a lesson that needs to be learned by the government and people of the United States. It needs to be learned by those concerned for the future of the United Nations...
During more than two years of immo-bilisme and futile factional wrangles, no French Premier has dared to submit EDC to the National Assembly for approval, even though the French thought up the scheme. Nor has any Premier dared to tell the U.S. (which wants a German contribution to Western defense) the truth about EDC's chances in Parliament-the truth apparently being that there is not a findable majority in both houses for the treaty in its present form. Last week Premier Pierre Mendès-France, man of elan, defied both bugaboos. He loaded the project with...
After a good deal of searching, a special committee of Louisiana legislators finally hit upon its own scheme for reversing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in the public schools. The question of segregation, argued the committee, has nothing really to do with race at all. It is merely a way of promoting the "public health, morals, better education and the peace and good order in the state -and not because of race." Any attempt to end segregation, therefore, would be a violation of the state police power-and the Supreme Court did not even mention that...
Chato's scheme, according to one donor: "He calls you on the telephone, bubbling over with enthusiasm about a new Ceézanne or Modigliani he has just bought. Right away you know you're involved in this purchase somehow. Before the conversation is finished you find you've just donated the painting. I've always thought of Chato as a kind of Brazilian Robin Hood. He robs the rich and gives it to the people...