Word: klein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promoter of Newsdom is one Max J. Klein who worked 21 years in the business departments of New York dailies, was discharged more than a year ago from Paul Block's Brooklyn Standard Union. He took his plan to William Randolph Hearst Jr. who donated free office space in the old Mirror building and underwrote the printing bill for the first issue. His sponsorship was tentative, conditional upon the tone of the first issue, viz: he would countenance no panhandling. Editor is Edward A. Roth, whose 43 years service on the World terminated when Scripps-Howard bought that paper...
...necked Argentine denounced the U. S. Tariff last week in words so strong that the U. S. State Department grew worried. Half a dozen other speakers at the National Foreign Trade Council convention in Manhattan last week sided with him. From his bountiful cornucopia of good cheer Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, poured reassuring Tariff figures with which to uphold the Hoover Administration. When the Council adjourned and drew up its annual, lengthy, vague resolution, the fighting word "tariff" did not appear...
Defense? Dr. Klein defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff with figures more specific than theoretical. Said he: "In 19 representative countries all over the world, comprising most of our leading customers . . . our share in their import totals last year was almost exactly 20%. . . . During 1924-27 [the U. S. share] averaged 20.7%. . . . Preliminary figures for 1931 show almost exactly the same trend." As to imports, his figures proved that for the first quarter of this year, "whereas the incoming European wares subject to duty fell 33%, . . . those coming in free of duties declined...
Attack. Differing sharply with Dr. Klein was Peter Fletcher, president of National Council of American Importers & Traders, Inc. Peter Fletcher wanted to see a prompt 25% reduction on ad valorem rates, 50%, on specific rates. He thought and said: "We are now in the midst of the greatest worldwide tariff war in history." Heartily in accord were Charles T. Riotte, lace & embroidery man; Howard S. Cullum, Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority; Philip le Boutillier, president of Best & Co.; Wallace Thompson, editor of Ingenieria International...
...Elliot Grims and Samuel Klein of New York, $1,800 each, for a year's study, respectively, of music...