Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...currency amendment. Such action was expected promptly and without change as a result of a conference between the two houses. The sheer physical bulk of the farm bill with amendments was more than matched by the dictatorial powers it gave the President over Agriculture and Finance. He could fix and collect a processing tax on wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, dairy products, tobacco, rice, sugar beets and cane with which to pay producers of these commodities...
...hour week at least the next thing to it. A bill before Congress (TIME, Jan. 23) would prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in any plant where workers labored more than five six-hour days a week. Furthermore it would give the Government power to fix minimum wage rates so that manufacturers could not simply cut weekly pay along with hours...
...more than 48 hours in any week, nor more than eight hours in any day. 2) By declaring a national emergency to make the rule apply not only to factories shipping in interstate commerce but to all industrial plants everywhere. 3) To give the Department of Labor power to fix minimum wages for men. women and children by localities (and the right to delegate this authority to local industrial commissions). 4) To limit the duration of the law to two years. While Mr. Swope, evidently promoting the liberal policies for which his Board Chairman Owen D. Young is famed...
...Thomas school of thought but he had also won a strategic victory. Not only had he changed Senator Thomas into an Administrative ally but he had stripped Congress of the power to inflate recklessly. The White House and one man. not the Capitol and 531 would hereafter fix the currency of the U. S. Assistant Secretary of State Moley went over to the White House to help the President draft his bill. When finished, it was turned over to Senator Thomas to carry to the Capitol...
...Debated the Roosevelt farm relief bill; adopted (47-10-41) against the President's wishes an amendment authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to fix farm prices to meet the cost of production; haggled long over radical amendments to innate the currency as the only adequate means of farm relief; defeated (43-10-33) an amendment to remonetize silver...