Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fix the status of France's innumerable government employes and take them out of politics. "In Great Britain," cried Premier Doumergue, "there is real separation of power, and the judiciary has nothing to do with politics. That is the sole method of insuring impartial justice. ... As to civil servants, their salaries and pensions are assured. These workers are a privileged class, and in return for their privilege they must submit to discipline and not spend their time both in and out of office hours on political work...
Though Professor Rogers' job was not finished, Mr. Morgenthau was already primed to fix U. S. silver policy for a long time to come. He ordered the doors closed, forbade anyone to leave until he had finished talking. Then he announced that the Government was "nationalizing" all silver bullion in the U. S., would pay silver owners 50.01¢ an oz. While his hearers fretted at their forced detention, Mr. Morgenthau proceeded to explain...
...collection records-115 tons of them-which had to be recalculated. Some 1,900 clerks will labor at this mighty bookkeeping for three years. More than 1,000,000 checks have to be made out, signed and mailed. And not until last week did Federal judges in Chicago fix the fee for the three lawyers who outsmarted the legal battalion of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., biggest corporation in the U. S. As just compensation for their victory, the court awarded them 7 1/2% of the takings...
...great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain...
...sand-colored sedan he has braved ugly crowds throughout the province, often getting an egg in the neck or a tomato broadside-on and never running for cover. Obviously his Conservative Government, returned to power in 1929 and on the defensive all through Depression, was in a hopeless fix. The Liberals had not won Ontario for 29 years but they were going to win now with a young dirt farmer named Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn as their New Dealer...