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...fight against the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill and succeeded in lowering a number of the rates at which he aimed his guns. He led the fight on the Scott-Hawley tariff bill and on the Mellon tax plan. Credit is given him for the graduated income...
Died. Joseph Warren Fordney, 78, longtime member of Congress (1899-1923) from the 8th Michigan District, co author of famed Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act (1922); of erysipelas; in Saginaw, Mich...
...Michigan has been a faith fully Republican district since 1898 when Joseph Warren ("Old Joe") Fordney, co author of the 1922 Tariff Act, took it away from Ferdinand Brucker, Demo cratic father of Michigan's present Repub lican Governor. Year ago the late Bird J. Vincent, thin, greyish Republican Representative, defeated a big, blond, slow-moving Democrat named Michael J. ("Mike") Hart by 20,000 votes. This year Mr. Hart, a bean jobber of Saginaw who runs an 800-acre farm, was again nominated, this time against Republican Foss O. Eldred of Ionia. Nominee Hart declared Wet, had the support...
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...
...appointing Senator Vandenberg, Governor Fred W. Green of Michigan stressed the advantage of youth as a qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms. This was interpreted as a gentle explanation of why Joseph Warren Fordney, onetime (1899-1923) Michigan Representative, had been passed by. Mr. Fordney, whose massive girth and demeanor are well suited to his reputation as an Old Guardsman, is 74 years...