Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find the defendant guilty as charged and fix his punishment at death...
...Federal Alcohol Control Administration to rule the industry without benefit of any liquor representatives; 2) no additions to present plant capacity except by a certificate of necessity from the F. A. C. A. and absolute control of production and distribution through a quota system; 3) power to fix prices; 4) an agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture to pay "parity" prices established by him for raw materials. Administration of the separate codes for brewers, importers and distributors, which come up for hearings this week, was also to be placed in the hands of the omnipotent...
...chooses to set-in order to influence the value of the dollar. Coupled with the declaration for a managed currency and higher prices it may mean that the Government intends gradually to increase the price of gold, thereby devaluating the dollar. There was no clue whether the Government would fix its price at a different level from the world price for gold-or, if so, how far different. Buying & selling gold in the world market would influence exchange rates in the same way (but not necessarily with the same purpose) as setting up an equalization fund, might be used...
About these salaries and bonuses Mr. Pecora began to ask questions: Q. Who had fixed the amount of Mr. Wiggin's compensation? A. His fellow officers. "And I helped to fix theirs,'' added Mr. Wiggin. ". . . We all sat together." Q. Who had fixed the bonuses paid by the bank to officers? A. Mr. Wiggin had fixed the bonuses, his own bonus excepted. "What usually happened was that my associates suggested the amount, and I cut it down." Q. He had not been charged when the bank lost money-the bonus system only worked...
That fact did not escape Secretary of State Hull, who knows that in the eyes of foreign nations all arms of a Government are attached to the same body. He would find himself in a pretty fix if, while he were negotiating a reciprocal trade agreement, the Corporation of Foreign Security Holders were trying to squeeze out of the same country a few more sols, drachmas, pesos. Britain, France and Switzerland, old hands at debt-collecting, long ago learned that direct dunning of public debtors is best left to private creditors. Furthermore, if the U. S. Government were pressing...