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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oklahoma officers arrested Thomason's "friends," lodged them in jail without bail on a charge of murder. Thomason himself "disappeared" for a day or so, only to give himself up, to explain that he had been "across the road" when the fatal shooting took place and knew nothing about...
...sliding scale which he admitted would produce rates lower than those proposed in the House bill (3? per lb.), made even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed for details, Senator Smoot promised to give them out in a week. Crossly he added: "Then the papers can print as many lies about them as they want...
...businessmen and lawyermen, bearing bulging brief cases and in anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...eliminate the 25% ad valorem tariff on motor cars. Theory: this U. S. industry, with its huge exports, no longer needs protection. Motormen Henry Ford, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Alvan Macauley (Packard, National Automotive Chamber of Commerce) and Walter C. White, were among those invited to step forward and give their views on this change. When they failed to make prompt response, there was committee talk of subpoenaing them...
...fixedly at the Commoners. In unison they slowly raised their black tricorn hats three times in greeting. Then Lord Chancellor Sankey read the King's speech, a speech which everybody knows is not written by the King at all but by the Prime Minister, a speech supposed to give the policies and promises of the new Government...