Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom the Hooverites expect much. The title "executive assistant to the national chairman" was proposed. Senator Fess complained it was not sufficiently "illuminating and dignified" for Mr. Lucas. Finally chosen was the phrase: "Executive Director of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee." The executive committee failed to fix Executive Director Lucas' salary at $25,000 as prearranged, left the matter to Chairman Fess and National Treasurer Joseph Nutt (also of Ohio...
Once he telephoned Morgan Partner Ledyard, said he was Congressman (later Attorney-General) A. Mitchell Palmer, suggested that Mr. Ledyard interview a man who could fix J. P. Morgan with the Democratic Administration. Soon afterward Wolf Lamar was convicted, jailed for impersonating a Government officer...
...attempting to prevent baby confusion, maternity hospitals write the baby's family name on a piece of adhesive tape and fix it to the infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from...
Fair, too, was Governor Conley, the tax's chief advocate. He presented the arguments against the sales tax. As his State applies it, he said it "falls on the thrifty and efficient and on the shiftless equally" it is difficult to fix equitable rates on different classes of taxpayers; it falls on consumption and thereby on necessities; it does not distinguish between extractive and mobile industries (West Virginia coal mining companies particularly chafe under...
Reporter Lingle, Racketeer, was pictured as the "man to see" for gamblers, bootleggers, et al. who sought to "put the fix" in any law enforcement office. If Lingle thought the "fix" feasible, he might say the necessary word-for a price. In three years, about $150,000 came to $65-per-week Reporter Lingle...