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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lobbyist Grundy, 67, grey-haired, white-mustached, thick through the shoulders, said he had raised $750,000 for the Coolidge campaign in 1924, had helped to raise "almost a million" for the Hoover campaign of 1928. This year he had spent $20,000 out of his own pocket in seeing that Pennsylvania industries got back, in higher tariff rates, these political contributions...
...Hawley-Smoot bill, he thought, was "a very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff...
...last two acts, acted in the jury room, the spirit languishes. For Mrs. Fiske's absurd first-act character becomes a smart, dominating woman, and what was almost wicked satire becomes burlesque. The jury is shown in impromptu sleeping regalia. Two lovers are interrupted at their devotions by the snores of a red-headed Irishwoman. There are two crusty moralists, a conventionally exploited Scotsman, a maundering poet-all the stencils of farce, with a brace of beauties thrown in for good measure...
...spilt over the military and political phases of the great conflict. Only now are we beginning to realize what a shock was given to Europe's well ordered life apart from the battlefield. That she is recovering is a source of gratification to us. It is Europe that takes almost half of all the goods we sell, besides sending us a third of all we buy. Asia sends us another third. But Europe is always easily first as buyer of our products. She is not only our best customer, but our principal rival in the markets of the world. Moreover...
...facts remain that some thousands of people have lost some billions of dollars, and some others have made, or stand to make nearly as much. It is almost inconceivable that business conditions will not be affected in some way by this great decrease in the public's purchasing power--in spite of reassuring messages by President Hoover and it would seem a reasonable guess that luxury lines and those trades which have padded their sales with the somewhat artificial methods of installment buying will feel such ill-effects as are developed...