Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cinema stars are seldom good mathematicians. Confronted with the U. S. income tax, many of them are reduced to flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...
...loans what its money will be used for. . . . It is thus impossible for a Reserve bank to dictate how its credit shall be put to employment. . . . The specific use of credit is the business of the individual member and nonmember bank. . . . What the Reserve banks do primarily is to fix the price at which their funds may be purchased...
...quiet, circumspect affairs. Last week, however, the President surprised the newsmen by having a grievance of which he spoke feelingly and at length. He was, he said, convinced that the Interstate Commerce Commission was a sluggish body which sadly required verve. It had taken the Commission three years to fix the cost of mail transportation. At the end of this time the Commission had judged that the government owed railroads $45,000,000 for previous service. The President stated that he had objected to this decision, had refused payments. The question had been carried to the Supreme Court. This difficulty...
Meanwhile, by debate, by letter, by whisper, by everything except precise calculation, the official and unofficial agencies of U. S. Government were attempting to fix exactly what should be spent to enforce its most famed law in fiscal 1930. The question was completely devoid of definitions but was pungently involved with politics, sentiment, vanity, religion, and a dozen characters, of which the most distinguished were the President of U. S. and the President-Elect...
...would be unfortunate to give the impression that we are merely going to state a number of years for the present annuity. What we are really going to do is to determine the amount of an annuity and the number of years it is to continue, so as to fix a total for Germany's obligations...