Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding discussed the sugar situation with his Cabinet and expressed the opinion that the tariff was not responsible for the rise in price, since sugar is now selling higher in Canada than in the United States, although the Canadian duties are lower...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced that income tax payments for March, 1923, now total $463,000,000-$63,000,000 greater than estimated and $70,000,000 greater than payments for this same period last year. This he attributes partly to better business conditions and partly to lower income surtaxes and the removal of excess profits taxes...
First, the sugar refiners want to secure a lower tariff on sugar...
Gizo Kasuya, a graduate of the University of Michigan, was elected to preside over the Lower House in the Japanese Diet, in succession to S. Oku, resigned. Kasuya is also a graduate of Keio University in Tokyo...
NACHA REGTJLES?Manuel Galvez ?Dutton ($3.00). This South American novel which won the Buenos Aires Prize for Letters in 1920 is not for light entertainment or easy reading. It is a thoughtful and sincere plea for the investigation and improvement of the so-called lower world in a great South American city. Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests. Dr. Monsalvat, the hero, tries to rescue Nacha Regules from her cabaret life; and from the study of her position is led to begin a campaign...