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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rates on incomes above $20,000 per year, opposed any move against small taxpayers. Also discussed were new levies on automobiles, radios, amusement admissions, estates, gifts. Only two items seemed sure of escaping tax upping: 1) corporations, already tottering under their 12% burden; 2) tobacco, which already pays an ad valorem rate...
...paradox: Tycoon Walter Runciman, the great Liberal shipping man (Royal Mail and associated companies) whose family stands rooted in the business and politics of Free Trade, was obliged personally to draft and put into effect measures making nearly all manufactured articles liable to a British tariff up to 100% ad valorem. Thus historically he hauled down the standard of Free Trade...
...effective Wednesday, Nov. 25, upped the tariff on several hundred articles (all of interest to U. S. exporters have been enumerated) not by 100% as the Board of Trade was entitled to do, but by 50%. In Washington the sky-high altitude of the present U. S. tariff, with ad valorem duties running up to 80% and exceeding 50% in most cases, was admitted last week to be so great that further upping in ''retaliation'' against Britain would be impracticable. What many a Runciman in the Empire hopes is that temporary British tariffs will force...
Roosevelt v. Smith. In the popular mind, last week's elections added a cubit or so to the stature of GovernorFranklin Delano Roosevelt of New York as Democracy's lead candidate for the Presidency. Still across his availability fell the uncertain shadow of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Last month Governor Roosevelt and Mr. Smith got into a squabble over what otherwise would have been viewed as a political triviality on the New York State ballot. Submitted to the people was a proposal to amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying...
...rest by recalling that this was not the first Gandhi-George V meeting. In 1901 the Indian community of Durban, South Africa welcomed the then Duke & Duchess of York, now Their Majesties, with a reception at which Lawyer M. K. Gandhi made the principal address. In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion. Last week potent St. Gandhi created a sensation by leaving the royal teaparty before no other guest. "Personally I have very little time for social functions," said he. "Both Their Majesties were charming. I also liked the Prince of Wales...