Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing that Democrats and insurgent Republicans were planning to alter this so-called flexible clause* so that Congress instead of the President should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a...
He would go down in history as indeed a weak-kneed President who, within the first year of his office, should let slip from the office's authority so great a power as the one which was given the President in the Tariff Act of 1922, the power to...
"I," said President Hoover, "gave my views [at the opening of the current special session of congress]. . . . I then pressed . . . the importance of maintaining the flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the...
Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the...
Indications have not been wanting that the need for remedying the maladjustment has been recognized. The Commission appointed by President Hoover last spring for the study of law enforcement, as a member of which Dean Pound is at present on a leave of absence from the University, is the most...