Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor T. N. Carver of the Department of Economics expressed himself as being entirely in agreement with President Coolidge on the subject of governmental price fixing. He said in part, "President Coolidge has endorsed a sound principle of economics in condemning government price fixing through legislative action. If one did have the wisdom and the power to fix prices, the values chosen would probably not be far from the natural ones determined by the laws of supply and demand. But such a standard would be very inconvenient compared with the flexible and automatic natural...
...been the custom for the American people to give thanks for the good fortune which the bounty of Providence, through the generosity of nature, has visited upon them. It is altogether a good custom. "Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, hereby proclaim and fix Thursday, the 27th day of November, as a day for national thanksgiving . . . "-a proclamation made at the City of Washington "in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-ninth...
...filled the same office for King George, until age forced his retirement. He was a lifelong friend of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable court secrets, he was mum as a headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt of practical jokes. "Bay" Middleton, famed sportsman, had a penchant for catching a coat by the tails and ripping...
...party to the Government of Ireland Act, and which came into existence by virtue of the Free State (Agreement) Act of 1922, sees the whole matter in a different light. In the Act which recorded her birth, the Free State bartered for the establishment of a boundary commission to fix finally the border line between the two Irish states. To this Act the Northern Government was not a party and has firmly declined to admit the legality of a boundary commission...
Robert M. LaFolLette radiocast his speech from the Capital. He promised to purge the Government of special interests, to abolish the power of big business to fix prices, control natural resources and credit, and fill the Government with their representatives. This he believed could be accomplished in large part without special legislation...