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...Tariff Commission which President Hoover expects to tell him how to flex out scientifically the injustices and inequalities of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act stood complete last week. The President revealed the names of only his first three selections: Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Thomas Walker Page, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of Wilson's Tariff Commission; John Lee Coulter, Republican, of North Carolina, chief economist and chairman of the Advisory Board of the present Commission, onetime president of North Dakota Agricultural & Mechanical College, able rural economist. Meanwhile Citizen Calvin Coolidge took...
Henry Prather Fletcher's service as a private in Roosevelt's Rough Riders (1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry) during the Spanish War was not mentioned at the White House last week as one of the official reasons why President Hoover appointed him chairman of the new Tariff Commission. But in many a mind there was a symbolic connection between Mr. Fletcher's military service...
...Pennsylvanian by birth (1873) and residence, Chairman Fletcher is a diplomat of 27 years' able foreign service. As a career man, he rose to be U. S. Ambassador to Chile (1914), Mexico (1916-20), Belgium (1922-24), Italy (1924-29), served as Assistant Secretary of State (1921-22) in charge of economic matters. The commercial aspects of international relations especially in Latin America have had much of his time and attention. He resigned as Ambassador at Rome last year, disappointed, some said, because the Hoover Administration had apparently neglected...
...Chairman Fletcher and the five new commissioners yet to be appointed will take office Sept. 16 when the old Tariff Commission expires. In eight years the Fordney-McCumber tariff was flexed 33 times. Last week a new system of advisory boards was being worked out at the Commission's headquarters to accelerate flexing, to give President Hoover quick recommendations for rate changes he has been awaiting ever since he signed the new act last June...
...From Fletcher's Field, Montreal, over a 500-mi. irregular course of roads through Victoriaville. Quebec, Ste. Anne de la Perade, Joliette, and back to Montreal's baseball stadium runners plodded last week in a relay race. Eighteen thousand spectators cheered the winners. Swathed in wraps, Arthur Newton of Rhodesia, South Africa, and Peter Gavuzzi of Southampton, England, hurried away to get some rest. Their total time for the 500-mi. course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time...