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...sick, sad and weary friend was about to leave Moscow, after making arrangements for the next Big Three meeting, when President Truman got in touch with him. Secretary Stettinius had told the President that the San Francisco conference was deadlocked on interpretation of the one-power veto. Could Harry fix it with Stalin...
...frontier. The nation was beside itself with debate. New York's famed criminal lawyer James T. Brady sped to his friend's defense with a battery of assistants. Two hundred talesmen were examined before twelve unprejudiced jurymen could be found. "You are here to fix the price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic history and Roman law that it lasted two days and later appeared as a book. The jury gave little heed to the prosecution's plea that the case before...
...gist: fix the selling price of the plants on the basis of their actual postwar "use" value, rather than on their sky-high original cost...
General Motors jumped into the banking business in March 1933. Virtually every bank in Detroit had been closed for six weeks. All business was at a near standstill. Even rich G.M., which had had some $19,000,000 of its cash impounded, was in a fix. Finally, to the $12,500,000 which the Reconstruction Finance Corp. subscribed to start a new bank, G.M. added a like amount (to buy all the common stock at $25 a share). Together they helped break Detroit's financial paralysis...
...much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says, "I'm stuck.") In The King of the Desert, two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a Hollywood bar until he knocks one of them out ("We'll fix you in Holly wood, Mister...