Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders had been telling him that his omnibus farm bill could not win congressional approval. The key and most controversial provision of that bill: to give Freeman the power to consult with farmers and work out subsidy and control plans for each commodity. Congress could approve or disapprove each scheme as it stood, but would not be able to amend any program or write...
...stubborn Orville Freeman declined. That left Congress little choice but to take him apart -and last week both the Senate and the House did just that. In the Senate Agriculture Committee, Chairman Allen Ellender brought up every compromise he could think of, only to have Freeman's scheme scuttled 9-8 by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. In the House committee, the plan went down to defeat before a similar coalition, although, as a sop. Freeman was given the power to set up marketing-control plans for honey, lamb, turkeys, California apples-and peanuts...
...served until his impeachment on charges of misusing public funds. After the Texas legislature stripped him of the right to run for public office again, Farmer Jim decided to run his wife instead. In the campaign. Jim Ferguson did most of the talking, made no effort to hide his scheme to govern Texas in his wife's name. The corn pone slogans reeked of duality: "Me for Ma," and "Two Governors for the price...
...countries from underdeveloped nations. Simultaneously, the U.S. sought to persuade textile-producing areas with low labor costs-Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and the U.A.R.-to agree to put voluntary limits on their exports so as to avoid complete disruption of the already glutted world textile market. The scheme had twin purposes: 1) to divert some Asian textiles from U.S. to European markets, and 2) to give the underdeveloped nations an economic boost in the form of European trade rather than...
...seems likely that we shall enter into the same type of unity with the great Philippine Independent Catholic Church and, perhaps, with the Lusitanian Church of Portugal and the Spanish Reformed Church." As for the Blake proposal, he placed himself in agreement with the opinion that such a scheme is "not of the holy way of faith and truth but of ecclesiastical organization and political management...