Word: mccumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light wines and beer should be permitted by law, according to the platform of the Harvard Republican Club, made public last night. It also comes out with a definite low tariff policy, favoring "a reversion immediately to the rates of the Fordney-McCumber...
...fight against the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill and succeeded in lowering a number of the rates at which he aimed his guns. He led the fight on the Scott-Hawley tariff bill and on the Mellon tax plan. Credit is given him for the graduated income...
Died. Joseph Warren Fordney, 78, longtime member of Congress (1899-1923) from the 8th Michigan District, co author of famed Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act (1922); of erysipelas; in Saginaw, Mich...
Chairman Fletcher and the five new commissioners yet to be appointed will take office Sept. 16 when the old Tariff Commission expires. In eight years the Fordney-McCumber tariff was flexed 33 times. Last week a new system of advisory boards was being worked out at the Commission's headquarters to accelerate flexing, to give President Hoover quick recommendations for rate changes he has been awaiting ever since he signed the new act last June...