Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miners and Laborites who have not seldom hanged "Murderer Churchill" in effigy, proved so receptive to the new compromise that a slogan ran through the coal fields last week: "Churchill will fix it!" The owners, slow to relax their demands, nevertheless announced that "in deference to Mr. Churchill" they would take his proposals under intensive advisement. Finally it was apparent to all that Premier Baldwin displayed great shrewdness in letting "Winnie" turn the Cabinet's somersault...
...together they walked in silence down the path which led into the woods. Down that path I had seen them go so many times together, just like this, his arm around her waist, as attentive as a young husband. They would, when they were alone at Oyster Bay, fix a little lunch and stroll down that path to have a little picnic together in the woods. Now they took their sorrow there. . . ." But he did not leave them there. "The nearest I saw him come to breaking down was, I think, at Columbus. There he had been talking...
...practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which he organized for J. P. Morgan Sr. in 1898. "You can select the directors, name the executive committee, choose your officers and fix your salary," Morgan told...
...final meeting of the year held last night, the Student Council, following the acceptance of the recommendations of the Budget Committee, decided to fix the sum of the Budget...
Again Judge Toereky made no attempt to fix the purpose of the plot, since so much as to hint at the return of the Habsburgs might result in serious trouble with France...