Word: antitariff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid great acrimony the oil and coal tariffs were finally voted (43-to-37) and (39-to-34) into the bill. Then the Senate stalled on copper and lumber, bitterness of the antitariff opposition rose to a startling pitch. As a reprisal Senator Tydings engulfed the chamber with 504 tariff amendments to the tax bill. Shouted...
Scanning the signatures on last week's antitariff manifesto, observers noticed that it had been signed by directors of such paramount British banks as Lloyds, Westminster and Midland, then recalled with a start that other directors of these very same firms signed the pro-tariff "Banker's Manifesto" which created such a rumpus just two months ago (TIME, July 14). Inescapable conclusion: Britain's bankers, famed as the most clannish in the world, have found an issue which splits like an axe even their own offices...
French Threat. Antitariff feeling against the U. S. ran particularly high in France. There U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge who as a New Jersey Senator had consistently voted for all maximum duties, got a bitter taste of the foreign by-product of his party's tariff policy. Last week at a Chamber of Commerce dinner in the Roubaix-Tourcoing woolen district, Ambassador Edge heard this direct threat from a potent French speaker: "European nations stand together on one point-if the United States closes her markets, these countries will consider themselves justified in following the same steps...
...grown to be a passion with Mr. Byoir. Through the Post's columns he fights her cause with all the fervor of a native. Cubans took him to their collective bosom for his magnum opus, a thoroughgoing study of the sugar industry and a series of smashing antitariff editorials which, spread over the front page of the Post, were widely quoted...