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...Senate received, and referred to the Judiciary Committee, the nomination of Attorney General Stone for Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Joseph McKenna, resigned. Speculation as to whom the President would now draft into his Cabinet vice Stone, lingered longest on Attorney Silas Strawn, of Chicago; on James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor-General...
...report from Washington announced the impending resignations of Associate Justices Joseph McKenna and Oliver W. Holmes of the Supreme Court. The report is credible on its face since Justice McKenna is 81 and has served in the court for 26 years, and Justice Holmes is 83 and has served for 22 years...
...domestic politics, the Baldwin Government will probably reimpose the McKenna duties (TIME, May 12), because they afford some measure of protection to Empire produce, the lack of which had disastrously affected the automobile industry of Britain. It seems established by the huge Conservative vote in Lancashire, home of the cotton mills and Richard Cobden of free trade fame, that protection is not so much of a bugaboo as was Socialism; therefore, a trend to protective tariffs is more than probable...
...William Joynson-Hicks: "We shall reimpose the McKenna duties in order to give some fairness between our own people and the Belgian and German nations...
American automobiles were in bond awaiting the expiration of the 33 ⅓% ad valorem duty imposed in 1915 as a war measure by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna. British manufacturers were gloomy at the prospect of having to compete on an equal footing with Americans. Great loss of business was envisaged. The decision to repeal the duties was contained in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's budget (TIME...