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The Question. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act contained for the first time in national history a provision for a flexible or elastic tariff to be applied entirely at the discretion of the Chief Executive. On recommendation of the Tariff Commission he may raise or lower duties (not more than 50...
The Significance. Mr. Harding's interpretation of the law is important because it gives the Chief Executive wider power over the tariff than was intended when the law was drawn. Only half an hour before President Harding met the Tariff Commission, Senator Smoot, who was responsible for the elastic...
But whether Horace Greeley's West, Palm Beach as pictured in the rotogravure supplements, or a hill farm in Vermont; the somewhere is always somewhere else, a place to go to with no responsibilities and the opportunity to move whenever the prospect grows tiresome. This state of mind is often...
The first open meeting of the Dramatic Club was held last evening in the Faculty Room of the Union. President J. M. Brown '23 introduced Professor Arthur Pope '01 who spoke briefly of the present standing of the drama. "The stage of today", he said, "presents more fully the complex...
"It would be difficult, if not impossible, for any Government Bureau to serve the sick and disabled ex-soldiers as well as the Red Cross organization can. Customary Government action is slower and less elastic than that of the Red Cross, and is more apt to be pauperizing in its...