Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas, who fell over himself last year declining the honor of sponsoring the Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing State proration laws at State lines. But what the President really wants is the power to 1) fix production quotas by States, 2) regulate interstate oil traffic and, if these fail, 3) to step into any oil State and set quotas for individual wells...
...Court, the first from the Field case and the second from the Hampton case. "Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President." And in "Hampton v. U. S.": "If Congress shall lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to fix such rates is directed to conform, such legislative action is not a forbidden delegation of legislative power." Such contradictions illustrate the trials and tribulations of a judge. V. H. Kramer...
...past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless they could find some new source of food and clothing they were doomed to slow extinction. To their worried guardian, the Canadian Government, reindeer seemed...
...conceivably perpetuate himself and his henchmen in power indefinitely (TIME, Aug. 27). Uneasy on his throne, the Kingfish last month summoned his Legislators again, put through 44 more bills in the constitutional minimum of five days. After that he could hire & fire local police and firemen throughout the State, fix utility rates, impose property taxes, run the State Bar Association, let any of his hillbilly supporters off from paying their debts for two years. Last week Senator Long piped his Legislators back to Baton Rouge for their third special session, had them rubberstamp this month's batch...
...there is plenty of sugar. In fact on Aug. 31 there was a world surplus of 9,673,000 long tons. That very surplus, coupled with President Roosevelt's desire to help Cuban producers and to protect loud-squawking U. S. beet growers, had led the AAA to fix quotas on sugar shipments into the U. S. under the Jones-Costigan Act (TIME, April 30). To the quotas which Secretary Wallace fixed, last week's squeeze was largely...