Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors was Maine's Brewster. He carried and soon delivered an authorized message from the President-Elect himself, a message outlining a plan (see col. 3) to help carry out the Hoover dream of "abolishing poverty." It being impossible for the Governors' conference to enforce resolutions or fix programs, the Hoover plan was received with applause only, not acted upon...
...were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability to bring about party unity for the solution of these problems would then fix the responsibility and make a record upon which a successful campaign can be waged four years from...
...this year the cheering in the Union has been unconvincing. One hesitates to fix the blame for this state of affairs, but the fact remains that last Saturday afternoon the Living Room was so quiet that a pin could be hear to drop, and this on the day of the last game in Cambridge. But from the very decadence of a past may spring the fertilization of new growth; let every man bear these words in mind when he takes his place among those who nourish fond hopes with absent treatment. And as the ball goes tearing down the grid...
...produced in that year 300,000 tons. Dutch plantations, in Java and the East Indies, produced only 95,000 tons. Prices were low. In an attempt to boost prices, establish a monopoly, Great Britain undertook, by the Stevenson Restriction Act, to regulate exports from Malaya. The idea was to fix the price of crude rubber at between 30 and 40? a pound...
Reports of the conference with Mr. Morgan were to the effect that the world market could not absorb sufficient German bonds to make the lump payment project feasible. In this case the statesmen can do no better than to definitely fix the amount of the annual payments, and the numbers of years during which Germany shall continue to pay them...