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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squawks from U. S. Senators in Washington greeted last week the budget speech to Canada's House of Commons made by Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious Dominion Premier & Finance Minister. At the last election Canadians gave Mr. Bennett a mandate to up their tariffs in Uncle Sam's face. Last week Conservative Bennett upped high, upped quick...
Nothing in the World is quicker than a British budget. In London, in Cape Town, in Canberra or in Ottawa all that the responsible minister has to do is to state that on item of revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went...
...Reprisals?" On the tariff side of Hon. Mr. Bennett's budget speech-and to hear U. S. squawks last week one might have thought there was no other side-the Canadian Premier made courteous pretense that he was not offering "reprisals" to the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Tariff upping (TIME, June 2, 1930). Mr. Bennett said that Canada's depressed "infant industries" and her unemployed workers were uppermost in his mind. By protecting industries he would make jobs. Indeed, two days after his speech Premier Bennett proudly explained just exactly why he raised the tariff on wire netting...
Aside from the naming of the officers no further business was discussed at the Council meeting yesterday. The head of the Advisory Committee is yet to be named. Collins will supervise the arrangement of the budget, which is drawn up annually by the Council to include contributions to leading charities...
...Treasury; George Eaton Scott, Chicago steel founder, a fisherman (past president of the Izaac Walton League); and Mrs. August Belmont, Manhattan dowager. They expect, as does he, that he will soon know enough facts to purge the Red Cross of inconsequential expenses and personnel, to balance its budget, regain popular esteem. Conducting the actual investigation: Edwin G. Booz Surveys of Chicago...