Word: flexing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working hours. What bothered him most was the question of the constitutionality of such a proposal. Marching to the Capitol, Secretary Perkins appeared before the House Labor Committee, picked two flaws in its 30-hour bill. She favored a less rigid measure which would permit her department to flex working hours between 30 and 40 per week, to meet different conditions in different industries. In the provision barring imports from countries with longer work weeks than the U. S. she saw an embargo which would seriously embarrass the President in his World Economic Conference negotiations starting this week...
...President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery -all arguments the President has repeatedly denied...
...Passed (214-to-182) a Democratic tariff bill which: 1) left all existing rates unchanged; 2) requested President Hoover to convoke a world conference for the reduction of "excessive" rates; 3) transferred from the President to Congress his power to flex rates; 4) created the office of "consumers' counsel" with the Tariff Commission. The measure was sent to the Senate. If passed there, President Hoover is expected to veto it as a political trap set to embarrass...
...President Hoover last week began to flex "injustices and inequalities" out of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. On the recommendations of his new Tariff Commission he cut the rates on woodflour (33¼"% to 25% ad valorem), pigskin leather (25% to 15%), straw hats ($4 per doz. plus 60% to $3 per doz. plus 50%), maple sugar (8? to 6? per lb.). Upped were the rates on woven wire fencing and netting (45% to 50% and 60%). Explanation of the Commission's celerity in investigating these rate cases was its use of foreign invoice values on imports...
...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...