Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President considered including a minimum wage provision in the minimum work-week law. Suggested was the creation of a variety of Federal boards to fix rock-bottom wages in different industries. President Roosevelt thought only 10% of U. S. industry would need such boards to prevent employers from cutting their employes' throats in trying to cut each other...
Suggestions that Harvard might follow Princeton's example in the appointment of an acting president, heard recently because of the Corporation's seeming inability to fix upon a new head, received short shrift in semi-official quarters yesterday. President Lowell, it is believed, will continue in office until his successor is appointed, even if that should prolong his term far into next year. His resignation, tendered last November, takes effect when his successor is appointed and ready to assume his duties, preferably at the end of this year...
...abolition of the Farm Board of which he was appointed chairman. A Dutchess County neighbor of President Roosevelt, he served under him as New York State Conservation Commissioner. He publishes the American Agriculturist, runs a 1,400-acre fruit and dairy farm. Said he: "Our idea is to fix the credit structure so that a farmer can borrow money for planting, harvesting and upon his land all in one spot...
...national forests. For work in the woods members of the C. C. C. would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter, clothing and medical attention. Those with dependents would have a part of their pay deducted and sent home. With working hours to be fixed by the President, the C. C. C. would clear brush, plant saplings, develop fire controls, fix roads, mend washouts, cook their own food and pick their own subordinate leaders under supervision of Army officers. "Uncivilized" workers would be dropped for infractions of law & order. A worker would be free to seek...
...Angeles County Supervisors, the Board of Education, Taxpayers' Leagues, representatives of newspapers and the Coroner's office joined in an investigating committee to fix responsibility for unsound building construction. Architects reminded the Board of Education that no major earthquake had been officially anticipated, that in a desperate effort to house the county's rapidly expanding school enrolments, many new buildings had been walled with cheap veneers which simply could not withstand seismic shock...