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...list were Canada and the A-B-C powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result of a U. S. "imperialistic policy in trade and commerce as baneful in its effect as an imperialistic...
...yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly from the White House came a denial that Senator Watson had been authorized to voice the Hoover views. Democrats jibed that the President must therefore favor "an insane and senseless" tariff revision without any reasonable measurement for protection. The White House the next day denied its first denial, which left the President's tariff attitude more blurred than ever...
Dallas housewives, Shreveport stenographers, Spokane waitresses, Chicago socialites?all fashion-conscious women in the U. S. were the invisible, ultimate spectators of a spectacle last week in Manhattan/s Astor Hotel. Despite the heat, a parade of mannequins marched all evening, dressed and redressed for next autumn. It was a march stolen on Paris. The fall fashion show of the Garment Retailers of America forecast the following features and trends...
...constructed at a cost of $7,000,000 for the Panama Pacific Line (International Mercantile Marine). Specifications: 21,000 tons (approximating the America and Cedric); 613 ft. long, 80 ft. beam; two 8,500 h. p. turbo-electric motors capable of 18 knots; capacity, 800 passengers. In service next October, she will ply between New York and San Francisco in 13 days...
...long series of previous British submarine disasters, Lt. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, Laborite, M. P., a retired naval officer, urged complete abolition of the submarine as an instrument of war, urged stopping construction on the six British submarines now under construction. Speaking next day in sooty, steel-manufacturing Sheffield, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander seemed to agree with him. Said...