Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...
...soon after the first. The second appeal is to serve democracy by education. Right here it fails to attract the attention the first one obtained. The first appeal was a concrete expression of abhorrence of a present evil; the second is based only on a quite vague and idealistic scheme of preparing for the future. This unfavorable comparison makes Harvard's latest plan for Scholarships lie unfortunately close to a noble absurdity...
...pursued earnestly, the Committee's plan deserves attention and support as being one important means of strengthening the ties and traditions in which this country believes. But before it can expect a hearty reception, the Committee must give proof that its scheme is not merely visionary and that it has practical value...
Predicting that plans for mutual defense of the Americas will get no farther than "pious expressions of good intentions," he said that the previously proposed "American League of Nations" will probably not be adopted. "The small states would only accept such a scheme on a basis of absolute equality of voting power, a plan to which the large states may never agree; this conflict is the real stumbling block," he explained...
...another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor of China the deposed Kang Teh, now puppet Emperor of Manchukuo...