Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the leadership of both parties went all-out for it, the House finally passed Ike's bill, but only after disclosing deep and bitter resistance to freer foreign trade inside both parties. The bill itself was moderate. As sent to the Senate, it extends the basic reciprocal trade laws until June 30, 1958, and grants the President power to reduce most tariffs by 5% in each of the next three years. For the most part, its opponents acted not on broad general principles but, rather, on each Congressman's political estimate of specific situations in his home...
...battle revealed two important new aspects of the old issue of tariff policy: the South, historic home of free-trade philosophy, is moving toward industrial protectionism, and one wing of the historically protectionist Republican Party is now committed to freer trade. Protectionism today is seldom defended as it was 50 years ago, as a general philosophy. Today it is an expression of localities, of every Congressman's sensitivity to the pressure groups back home. That is why freer-trade slogans sweep the field of public debate; but when Congress comes face to face with tariff-policy discussion, many...
DETROIT'S Charles Freer made millions building railroad cars (Peninsular Car Works), retired at 44 to collect art on a grand scale. He bought some 9,000 objects, built a Washington museum to house them, and willed the whole collection to the Government. In the 32 years since its opening, the Freer Gallery has delighted millions of visitors. Its Chinese painting collection has only one rival outside of China (Boston's Museum of Fine Arts), and includes hundreds of masterpieces on a plane with the Sung Dynasty ink drawing at left...
...Collector Freer (who died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...
...FREER TRADE POLICY has been upheld again by President Eisenhower. Overriding recommendations of the Tariff Commission, the President rejected any boost in import duties of screen-printed silk scarves mostly from Japan, has also turned down, a request for import quotas on wood screws from Western Europe. The presidential box score, thus far: eleven nays, eight yeas on requests for higher import barriers...