Word: mccumber
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...order to protect the "War-baby" beet sugar industry of this country, a tariff on imported sugars was placed in the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. The beet sugar growers of Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic...
...Coolidges took a six-hour cruise on the Potomac aboard the Mayflower. The guests included Secretary and Mrs. Denby, Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, former Senator and Mrs. McCumber, Representative Kahn of California and Mrs. Kahn, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
...pointed out that in preparing the estimates of the cost of the earlier bill, Senator McCumber had assumed that 22½% would take farm and home aid, 2½% vocational training and 75% would take certificates. The Secretary declared that a proportion of 9%, 1% and 90%, respectively, was now believed more accurate...
...active manager, Frank H. Hitchcock. Johnson has not the organization backing of Coolidge, and he has alienated some Progressives who formerly supported him, such as Borah and Norris, by being "conveniently absent" from the Senate when the attempt was made to oust Newberry, and by voting for the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Nevertheless his campaign is professional, well-financed, well-organized -and to be reckoned with...
...advocate various forms of wheat-relief to be carried out more or less at Government expense. The regular Republicans believe little can be done except to let the situation right itself, but will probably have to make some gesture of helpfulness. The Democrats will advocate repeal of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and entrance into the League of Nations, as relief measures-without expecting either to come about...