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Snapped Mr. Cox: "If the gentleman had the power to fix the wages of labor, would he in the exercise of that power totally and completely disregard the ability of the employer to pay the wage fixed...
...Madison, Wis., last January, a jury chiefly comprised of farmers found 30 substantial members and 16 companies of the U. S. oil industry guilty of conspiring to raise and fix gasoline prices (TIME, Jan. 31). In the four months it took to arrive at that conclusion the Government prosecution and the industry's defense (there were 57 defense attorneys) together spent a total of about $3,000,000. In addition, conviction carried a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine or a year in jail for each executive and a $5,000 fine for each company. With motions...
...chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table of one who is greater than thou, take what he may offer thee as it is set before thee. Fix thy gaze at what is before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force thy notice upon him. . . ." From a hymn to the Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers...
...keep this up much longer--suffocating by inches--a fine fix for a college man. In desperation, the Vagabond takes a deep breath, flings off the covers, flails his arms wildly, skids on the rug, reverses his field beautifully, and slams the door behind him gratefully. Outside, he quiets his throbbing pulse and takes careful inventory. Unscathed. The little devil never laid a stinger on him. He finished his sleep uncomfortably on the sofa...
...looks awful. It's in horrible shape. Why don't you get a WPA project down here and fix...