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...rightful place in Social Science offers, perhaps, the soundest application yet conceived of the invention. As he says, actual sight and sound of legislative' bodies in action would add tremendous vitality to the sometimes deadened lectures concerning those parliaments. Professor Friedrich's proposal, if carried out, should undoubtedly fix the word "film" as the permanent derivation from the original, "moving picture...
...political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...Liege, Belgium, there gathered last week the steel lords of Europe, members of the International Steel Entente. Potent in theory is this cartel which was formed in 1926 to regulate production, later began to fix prices. But in fact it has become feebler and feebler through dissension among its members, bitter competition from Great Britain and Poland (non-members). Last week's meeting indicated definitely that the cartel's recent threat of competition against the U. S. is ended, indicated most definitely that the cartel was groaning in its death struggle...
...late famed Genealogist John Horace Round that the law specifically states that the throne shall go to the eldest son, does not specifically state that it shall go to the eldest daughter in case of a girl. Other papers taking it up, called for an Act of Parliament to fix the exact status of the newborn baby...
Once he telephoned Morgan Partner Ledyard, said he was Congressman (later Attorney-General) A. Mitchell Palmer, suggested that Mr. Ledyard interview a man who could fix J. P. Morgan with the Democratic Administration. Soon afterward Wolf Lamar was convicted, jailed for impersonating a Government officer...