Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injunction was obtained against the securities order. The rate controversy went before a three-judge Federal Court. Last week the court gave a 2-to-1 ruling that the Public Service Commission has the right to fix rates-but that the 30? rate was confiscatorv. It also set the assets of the companies involved midway between the Doherty figure of $93,000,000 and the Commission figure of $73,000,000. It upheld the right of Henry L. Doherty & Co. to charge management fees (of prime importance to all utility pyramids) but said that the fees would have...
...Governor Roosevelt still had a link between them in the person of Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis. U. S. arms delegate and Hoover Man-about-Europe. Arriving in Manhattan on the Manhattan last week Delegate Davis announced: "There's no doubt that the world is in a terrible fix. The nations seem to realize that if they don't want to perish separately they must get together." Speeding to Washington Mr. Davis spent 90 minutes reporting to President Hoover. Said he: "It's a great thing to get, Germany back into the disarmament conference. Actually it has prepared...
Scanning the dreary horizon of 1932 as it recedes into history, upon whom would the discerning eye of an alert U. S. citizen fix as Man of the Year...
...hard to find much more that the Conference did accomplish. In the name of His Majesty's Government, Sir Samuel, a stalwart Tory, refused to fix a date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round...
...nation, who labor beneath a great load, For they're forced to write English too much a la mode. And what shall we do?" those great-hearted souls cried To help these poor students; it's so hard they've tried! "If we don't fix on something, they surely won't pass, "And then if they don't, why the teacher's an ass! "We don't want to teach grammar, and what-shall we do If we don't take good care that these dunces get through? " Look here...