Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the name of Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho loomed in the news of the land. In Martinsburg, W. Va., he made a ringing speech for the Tariff Bill's Export Debenture Plan which President Hoover strenuously opposes. Back in Washington he was primed to lead off the Senate attack upon Judge John Johnston Parker, President Hoover's appointee to the Supreme Court. To Chicago he sent a message to Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick welcoming her as an ally against President Hoover's World Court Plan. He voted against confirming President Hoover's nominee for District...
...them were along the same lines the Federal Farm Board is now pursuing. With his knowledge of practical husbandry, of law, of politics, he has become Agriculture's most potent House orator. He plugged for the old McNary-Haugen bill, extolled the Equalization Fee, favored the Debenture Export Plan. Though disagreeing with his agricultural views, President Coolidge once recommended him to a Massachusetts audience as the House's "strongest speaker" on farm relief. He made his activities felt upon the House leadership. Speaker Longworth remarked: "Dick, if you ever need an affidavit that you have been a hell...
Delegates heard Dr. Francis Scott McBride, their Washington lobbyist, recite his achievements. They crossed the Detroit River to have a look at government-controlled liquor stores and liquor export docks on the Canadian shore...
...Wilson in 1916 to make a plea for "incomparably the greatest navy in the world." Had ships carrying food then enjoyed the same immunity as hospital ships, it is possible that the area of the Great War might have been more circumscribed. Every nation whose economic status includes the export of foodstuffs, is likely to build naval armament for the purpose of keeping the sea open for its food-carrying ships...
Obviously, largely as a result of control, the country is now on a sound financial basis. The old loans have all been called in and new ones substituted. Taxes are collected regularly and yield much more than formerly. The export duty has been greatly reduced and Haiti is now exporting more than she imports. Altogether the country is more prosperous and better off from an economic standpoint than it was when the Americans took it over...