Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wearing a wig and acting like a gold-digger's idea of a grande dame. He meets but does not recognize her. She says she is the Duchesse de Granville. The real Duchesse de Granville is his stepmother whom he has never seen. She, accordingly, is in a fix. She runs rapidly away, chased by police, house detectives, him. She returns to her lunchwagon. He ties the lunchwagon to his limousine and drags it to the door of his palatial house. She is Colleen Moore. He is Larry Kent...
...minister; building up the faith of others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual worries. 4. It is a prayerful life and therefore 'his nerves are at rest.' 5. It is independent ; 'one can rise at any hour one pleases,' fix one's own office hours, take days off ad libitum. 6. It is honored; he and his family are respected and deference is paid to his opinions on all sorts of subjects. 7. It is fairly well paid; minimum net salary about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses...
...emphasis of I. C. C. actions, and of laws to back up the actions, has extended from the first-named function (rate-making) to the third-named (scrutiny of financial structures). In 1906, for example, the so-called Hepburn Bill finally gave the I. C. C. power to fix rates. Whereas in 1920, the Esch-Cummins Act, which returned the railroads to private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause, designed to create...
...Farm Bureau Federation clings to the equalization-fee of the aged McNary-Haugen Bill. By this plan, each farmer would pay some of his profits into a pot, held by the Government, from which farmers with losses would draw compensation. How to compute such losses? By having the Government fix "a fair price" for all crops each year. Farmers forced (by the presence of a crop surplus) to sell below the U. S. price, would be considered losers...
...Royal, Neb., one W. L. Seaman carried a package into a store. Here he unveiled two gloomy and fetid objects, a pair of shoes, which he handed to the man of the shop, saying: "Fix these. Half-soled I want them." Unabashed, in response to scornful comments ill-disguised as polite curiosity, W. L. Seaman admitted that his shoes had never been repaired before; that they were 25 years...