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...noted the President frankly confessed that nobody knew the present level of the dollar and that too many artificial forces were at work in world currencies to enable America to fix now on a definite value for the dollar...
...found upon reflection to have been a wise move. Now entirely apart from this phase of his policy, there will be criticism of what he refers to as a managed currency and issue will be taken with him as to whether it is sound ever to try to fix the value of the dollar by changing its gold content every now and then to conform to price changes. This theory, which is sponsored by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, is not new and has had the penetrating criticism of economists and gold experts for a decade...
Straus on "Fixing." At the Washington hearings, Mr. Percy first asked why the retailers did not submit a simple code which could be put through quickly and which would accomplish precisely what President Roosevelt wanted-raise wages, shorten hours, increase employment. Next he demanded some assurance that there would be labor and consumer representatives on the Retail Code's administrative board and its local committees. Neglect of consumers, he warned, was likely to be disastrous. And then Mr. Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned...
...price would nevertheless be stabilized within narrow limits. So that a store's stocks might not become frozen through the operation of this provision, bona fide clearance sales, disposal of perishable goods and discontinued lines, genuine liquidation, were permitted at any prices a merchant chose to fix...
...cupola and the great central hall of Berlin's Reichstag Building were gutted by a mysterious fire last winter (TIME, March 6). Ostensibly to fix the blame the Nazi Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being...