Word: commissioner
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Valuation. The cost of an article abroad (foreign value) is now used to assess ad valorem duties. The Finance Committee voted to change the system to domestic or U. S. valuation?then crossed its fingers and postponed the effective date to Jan. 1, 1932. Domestic value is "the price at...
Commission. The Tariff Commission was changed back into a bi-partisan organization responsible to Congress, contrary to President Hoover's wishes.
Soon steps to draft a concrete program of evacuation were taken by what was called the Political Commission of the Hague Conference. Beaming Dr. Stresemann sat to business between Mr. Henderson and M. Briand. "I believe a settlement of the political issue can be effected," he said, "even if agreement...
...which united with Scotch Presbyterians in 1900. With 92 ministers to guide them, the "Wee Frees" dwell glumly in the mist of the wild highlands, bemoaning their sins, brooding on Hell. Last week the "Wee Frees' " Assembly Commission met awesomely at Edinburgh. Before the day was out various Commissioners had censured as "Sabbath-breakers" not only Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald but Their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of York...
Dr. William E. Rappard, onetime Director of the Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations, protested against the Kellogg Pact, objecting to "uncertainty as to what it prohibits and what it permits, the absence of any indication as to the nature of the 'pacific means' which are to be...