Word: fordney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with the "flexible" provision of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law, the President raised the duty on wheat from 30c to 42c a bushel and on wheat flour from...
...order to protect the "War-baby" beet sugar industry of this country, a tariff on imported sugars was placed in the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. The beet sugar growers of Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic...
...active manager, Frank H. Hitchcock. Johnson has not the organization backing of Coolidge, and he has alienated some Progressives who formerly supported him, such as Borah and Norris, by being "conveniently absent" from the Senate when the attempt was made to oust Newberry, and by voting for the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Nevertheless his campaign is professional, well-financed, well-organized -and to be reckoned with...
...representation in the last House, we shall be under an additional disadvantage, for we have lost a large number of our best parliamentarians and fighting men. Our former leader, Mondell, will not be with us, nor will Fess, nor Campbell, nor Walsh, nor Stafford, nor Greene, nor Kelley, nor Fordney, nor Reavis, nor?the peer of them all?the late James R. Mann. These were the men who bore the brunt of every battle, and their places will be difficult indeed to fill...
...strongly advocate various forms of wheat-relief to be carried out more or less at Government expense. The regular Republicans believe little can be done except to let the situation right itself, but will probably have to make some gesture of helpfulness. The Democrats will advocate repeal of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and entrance into the League of Nations, as relief measures-without expecting either to come about...