Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Converters Association reversed its traditional pro-tariff stand and asked for the bill's rejection. The National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association did likewise. The American Importers & Exporters Association urged a veto on the ground that the new tariff rates (highest in U. S. history; an average of 41% ad valorem on all dutiable commodities or 20% above the present law) "will cause ill will and reprisals which will make it impossible for us to develop the export trade necessary to the continued prosperity...
...Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ of the White House during the Wilson Administration. With the War everything changed. Editor Croly naturally espoused the League of Nations-devoted an issue to denouncing its enemies...
Shingles. House rate: 25% ad valorem. Senate rate: free. Again Chairman Hawley pleaded for the top rate, again he offered to compromise on 15% ad valorem, again the House swept him aside, put shingles on the free list...
...about a Frenchman who, having lost his fortune in the War, has become a guide de societe in Venice. Big charming voice--which has already been shown as non-existent, thus reducing the motivating forces of the film ad absurdem--and his just as charming tenderness--which the reviewer doesn't believe in anyway-- wins him (Maurice) an American Heiross which makes a very long sentence. Father of heiress objects to foreign influence, but being a clever old cadger, brings Maurice of America so he may flicker in contrast with the go-getters of this country. Maurice, of course, becomes...
...Barnes may be well defined by saying that he is the best expression of Chamber Spirit. As such he has been thoroughly publicized?wherein lies the great virtue and petty vice of Chambers. Today there is scarcely a hamlet without its Chamber and the U.S. Chamber has an ad-packed magazine called Nation's Business, the only real success in its field. The great virtue of the thousand and one Chambers is that they give voice to an otherwise dumb world of Business. That this voice is sometimes vapid is a peccadillo which sophisticates magnify...