Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still hanging fire last week was the proposal, accepted in principle by both Japan and Russia, to appoint a commission to fix the contiguous boundaries of those two countries and thereby end all excuse for frontier skirmishing...
...London Naval Treaty does not fix any naval ratio among the Great Powers, does not limit the total tonnage or number of effectives of any navy, has no concern with the peace of Eastern Asia and provides no wedge for the Open Door of China which Japan is now fast closing. Those four safeguards to the Peace of the World have definitely been allowed to lapse...
...good reasons: 1) President Roosevelt publicly advised Congressmen to pass it, "however reasonable'' might be their doubts as to its constitutionality; 2) the United Mine Workers of America threatened a strike unless it was enacted; 3) most Northern coal operators favored the law because it promised to fix coal wages, thereby preventing Southern operators from underselling them. Last week before the Supreme Court the lawyers of several Southern coal operators proceeded to argue the reasonable doubts which Congress had been told to ignore...
...Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. Since that code was not constitutional, Congress had to make certain substantive changes. Instead of telling the NRAdministrator to write whatever code he thought was best for the industry, Congress directed by law that the code should fix wages and hours of miners, should require collective bargaining, should regulate coal prices. To compel the industry to obey the code by penalizing disobedience, a 15% tax on coal production was imposed. However, any producer who operated under the code was to get back...
Some critics left the premiere growling that Clyde (played by Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion...