Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While there have been suggestions as to new airmail legislation, the truth is the power to restore normal service rests in the post office department. Emergency contracts can be granted pending a determination of airmail policy. The postmaster general has the right to fix the rates to be paid for carrying airmail...
...Indeed, the Supreme Court of the United States in many a base has stated its position exactly the everse of what was handed down yesterday. Again and again it has been fuled that certain businesses were not lothed with the public interest or that he State Legislature could not fix prices, but all these precedents are swept aside is the majority declares that the Constiation "does not guarantee the unrestricted privilege to engage in a business conduct it as one pleases...
...happy to see applied to the traditional control of tariffs by the Legislative body. But it is none the less desirable. If it is admitted that we could not have made progress during the first year of the New Deal without executive authority to manage the dollar, to fix the price of gold, to reorganize the banks, to fix wages and working rules, then it is illogical to deny Mr. Roosevelt the one major power he now seeks, which may bring more results than all the other delegated powers put together...
Perhaps the administration can bully the milk producers into letting it fix their prices; perhaps it can order private industry to shorten working hours and increase its payroll, perhaps it can enforce its codes and throw recalcitrant employers into jail. But, if it starts to do these things, it will not be long before its present legislative support has stolen away, and it will have to decide whether it is going to continue to do them without that support. Rule without the check of parliamentary method has a name, dictatorship. It should not frighten anyone. But it should make people...
...municipality, the recent exposures warrant firm action. Rumor has floated about that a well-known shoe firm is in collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal Club should take this situation in hand...