Word: industriale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suppose, as a test of national issues, we take the chief issues presented to Congress by the President in his last two messages. Those issues are: 1. Tax reduction. 2. Water power, as represented at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. 3. National defense. 4. Tariff. 5. Industrial relations. 6. Prohibition...
4. The tariff. Smith is a Democrat; but in these days of scrambled politics it does not follow that a Democrat--especially a Democrat from an industrial State--is necessarily a free trader. How far Smith would go in the matter of tariff reduction is an open question.
5. Industrial relations. Smith has made a large part of his reputation on his championship of such measures as minimum-wage laws, workmen's compensation, maternity insurance, and the eight-hour day. It is quite certain that if he were elected the Democratic party, which has acquired many a sudden...
"Is there any reason why the Filipino people should not attain such economic development? Manifestly they lack it today. . . . But the Philippine Islands are today possessed of political connections with the foremost industrial nation in the world. . . ."
President Magnus Washington Alexander of the National Industrial Conference Board declared last week to a Cincinnati audience of the National Metal Trades Association that one-ninth of 1% of the corporations of the U. S. (95 in number) made a net income in 1925 of $5,000,000 or more...