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Meanwhile, scientists from all parts of the country, free from the influence of sectional prejudices, agree that the tariff is injurious to the nation as a whole. The import trade is lowered; large classes of people are in no way benefitted and many are harmed. The farm problem grows as the tariff increases...
...must not forget that we sell $100,000,000 worth of manufactured articles annually in the United States while we import from them only about $32,000,000 worth. . . . The Americans are in an excellent position to retaliate...
Holy rites of celebration would be secretly performed in the six-spired Mormon Temple, open only to Mormon church-members in good standing (i.e., approved as moral and right-minded by their local pastors-'"bishops"), and thus long supposed by superstitious Gentiles* to conceal queer ceremonies of polygamous import. But Mormonism is by no means merely a closeted, holy matter. It is also a hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple...
...aided the doctors to save her husband, the statesmen to rule his realm. As presiding officer of a specially created Council of State she signed for His Majesty hundreds of state papers, among which the following Order in Council was not the least: "It shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
Twice within the year he barely escaped notoriety: 1) when he announced that, as a friendly gesture, he would import under his diplomatic privilege no more liquors and wines for the British Embassy:† 2) when as the dean of the diplomatic corps he announced that Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, half-sister of Vice President Charles Curtis, would be accorded all the social honors and attentions of No. 2 lady of the land without setting a precedent (TIME, April...