Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next came a review of partisanship in the U. S. Tariff Commission, blaming Democrats and Republicans alike, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge, but forgiving Wilson because of the recreation of the Commission in 1916. Secretary Jardine received a flaying for having misquoted the Smith reference to the Underwood Act of...
4) "I state definitely that the Democratic party if intrusted with power will be opposed to any general tariff bill. . . . I definitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on its own merits by an impartial commission...
6) "In the belief that provision for a bi-partisan tariff commission promotes rather than eliminates politics. I would ask Congress to give me authority to appoint a tariff commission of five members from among the best qualified in the country to deal with the problem irrespective of party affiliations...
*The U. S. Tariff Commission is at present composed of six members, of which not more than three may be of the same political party. They receive $9,000 each per annum. The present, and usual, constituency is three Republicans, three Democrats and it is usually deadlocked on party lines...
Forces only partly known, like hidden electromagnets, were dragging against his fifth system. The New York Central wanted him out of their territory; it wanted the B. R. & P. as a cross-country, north-south connecting line. The B. & O. wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern...