Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eccles bill placed the Federal Reserve Board under the thumb of the President by giving him power to appoint and remove at will the Governor and Vice Governor. To this Administration-controlled Board it gave centralized powers to fix rediscount rates and conduct open-market operations (powers that had previously belonged to the twelve regional Reserve Banks throughout the land); authority to alter reserve requirements, and to admit or deny virtually any collateral for rediscount. As the bill emerged after Senator Glass had worked on it, the Federal Reserve Board (renamed the "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs. "As a producer of food," cried Pomologist Byrd. "I am firmly convinced that much more harm than good will result from the attempt to fix prices, those prices to be paid by the consumer. And especially is it entirely unworkable to attempt to fix prices for perishable...
...countless U. S. cities marriageable teachers currently find themselves in the same fix as Rita Coates. Last week the National Association of Women Lawyers, meeting in Los Angeles, was at pains to appear solicitous in revealing that teachers less virtuous than Rita Coates find solutions less virtuous than hers. According to President Percilla Lawyer Randolph of the Women Lawyers, it is common practice for a teacher to divorce her husband, keep on living with him. By working fast a teacher can go through marriage and divorce before her school board gets around to dismissing her. Said Felice Cohn, Nevada...
...Earl of Bessborough was a bill whose provisions represented a complete policy somersault. The measure abolishes the present pool, substituting for it a three-man wheat board appointed by the Prime Minister. The Board is not to continue the present wheat price-peg (80¢) but has the power to fix a minimum price at which it will buy wheat from Dominion farmers. Since the minimum price may often be less than the market price, wheat farmers are to receive participating certificates entitling them to share in the Board's profits, if any. More important than these provisions is the declaration...
...paroles after five convictions for burglary had given 24-year-old Harmon Waley a proper contempt for U. S. courts and prisons. It was soon discovered that the Waleys had spent a penniless year in Camden, N. J., boasted that they were "going to do something that would fix us for life," moved to Salt Lake on relief funds last January...