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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down in history as indeed a weak-kneed President who, within the first year of his office, should let slip from the office's authority so great a power as the one which was given the President in the Tariff Act of 1922, the power to raise or lower duties by 50% upon recommendation of the President-appointed Tariff Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Camp Trouble | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...country has roller bearings on the driving and tender wheels and on the connection between the main and side rod. If successful it would make good the boast: "Throughout industry the 'impossible' has yielded to Timken design, construction and resources." To the railroads it would bring lower operating costs and the riding comfort that the public, accustomed to buying every luxury desired, is starting to demand from railroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fast Wheels | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

High Cost of Babies is curtailing size of U. S. families, commented Providence's John William Keefe, He would improve the midwife qualifications of general practitioners and have community hospitals lower their maternity ward charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.A.O.G.A.S. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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