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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance Committee last week decided: 1) To abandon Senator Smoot's sliding sugar tariff because of its resemblance to price-fixing; 2) To triple the house-proposed duty on waste wool; 3) To reduce the duty on automobiles from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Gentlemen Agree | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...What a great thing it would be if we could persuade the nations of the world to abandon the submarine for warfare! I think it must be said to the credit of this country that such a proposal was made years ago by Britain, but it has not been possible to achieve international agreement on the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Their mission: To defend or to abandon the 25% ad valorem tariff on imported automobiles, as specified in the tariff measure passed by the House of Representatives and now before the Senate. Their message: That the automotive industry would be well satisfied with a 10% duty. But countervailing duties* should be maintained and the 25% duty should remain on trucks, buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U.S. Motors Abroad | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Amanullah's wife, Queen Thuraya, lay, heavy and silent, in her deck chair. She had just borne another child (a daughter named India) at Bombay and looked more like a poor emigrant than an exiled queen. Amanullah complained of poverty, said he had only $30, had had to abandon his clothes when he fled from Kandahar, Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Sad Amanullah | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Elkhart, Kan., the Singing Masters' Association convened for a "sing," tried to yodel, couldn't, was forced to abandon efforts for two hours. Cause: Too much fried chicken had been devoured prior to the songfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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