Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal laws transfer power from Congress to the President, so the new Federal Procedure Act transfers power from Congress to the U. S. Supreme Court. Heretofore that august tribunal has worked reforms only in the matter of speeding up appeals from below. Henceforth the Supreme Court will fix rules of procedure in all Federal Courts- conveniently simple, workable, and uniform rules that can be changed without legislation when conditions demand. In drafting its rules the Supreme Court will probably have the help of a special assistant to the Attorney General and heed the advice of the bar. If, as expected...
...quota. Producers must file with him a copy of all sales and the price per pound. Price changes must be filed 24 hours in advance, thus preventing one company from stealing a march on its competitors. The code specifically forbids destructive price cutting, gives the Code Authority power to fix prices in an emergency or suspend code provisions if they go too high. Actually, with a 4?-per-lb. tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President...
...Dartmouth and the University of Wisconsin, he later taught at Iowa, Michigan and Texas. In 1916 he became an economist to the Federal Trade Commission, helped handle its early but unsuccessful campaigns against alleged monopolistic practices in the gasoline and newsprint trades. During the War he helped the Government fix prices. After a short interlude directing publicity against the big meat packers in behalf of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, he returned to Washington to establish the Department of Agriculture's Cost of Marketing division, which made extensive studies on the distribution of milk and potatoes...
...going to take any chances with the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then." The City Council voted unanimously to add to its list of stalwarts, six of the finest horses that money can buy, and if that doesn't fix those naughty boys, then nothing ever will...
...newsreels in order to get the feature pictures from which most profits are made. Large producers demand a big share of small exhibitors' gross receipts, sometimes 35% for popular pictures, and dictate the days on which pictures shall be shown. The code gives distributors the right to fix admission prices. Many independent theatres cannot get popular pictures until their competitors have largely exhausted such pictures' drawing powers...