Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been spent as a Hearst executive, to enter such a promised land. He became, last week, the paper's general manager. Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils?who bought the Post for his partner Tammen and himself in 1893 with some of the money he made out of operating the Little Louisiana Lottery (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928)?had specially made the new job for his longtime friend Koenigsberg...
...Franklin lobby method was to trade Senate votes. He would promise a Senator interested in an increased sugar duty a vote for sugar in return for his vote for an oil duty. Thus he lined up the Colorado and Louisiana "sugar" Senators for an oil duty on the promise that Oklahoma's "oil" Senators would later vote for sugar...
Events: 1776, Declaration of Independence; 1787, framing of the Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1845, admission of Texas as a state; 1846, Oregon boundary settlement (U. S.-Canadian northwest border set at 49° north latitude); 1850, admission of California to the Union; 1865, end of Civil War; 1908, the Panama Canal...
Rates. What happened, legislatively speaking, was fairly simple: The present world sugar tariff rate into the U. S. is 2.20? per lb. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential below the world rate, pays 1.76? per lb. At the demand of cane growers in Louisiana, beet growers in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, the House voted a 3? sugar rate (Cuban: 2.40?). To stifle public outcry against this increase, yet give domestic sugar producers more "protection," Senator Smoot's Finance Committee proposed a world sugar rate of 2.75? (Cuban: 2.20?). Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in the name of U. S. sugar consumers...
...consumers in their States and up for re-election this year, went over to the Coalition. Three Progressive Republicans from beet-sugar-growing States (Howell of Nebraska, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota) supported a higher rate. Four Democrats (King of Utah, Kendrick of Wyoming, Ransdell and Broussard of Louisiana) joined the protectionist Old Guard...