Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The other Harvard Smith men who were clustered about their automobile attempted a pacific non-partisan interference but where discouraged by promiscuous shoves and blows. In response to a belated riot call the police at length arrived and forthwith broke up the altercation. The Harvard men were asked to continue...
"I am defining a general policy. It does not mean that our Government is to part with one iota of its national resources without complete protection to the public interest. I have already stated that where the Government is engaged in public works for purposes of flood control, of navigation...
The tariff theme lent itself also to the one embarrassing feature of the New England visit?the depression, in the textile industry. Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result...
Louisville was a logical place, and at the same time a fearsome place, for a Democratic speech on the tariff. It was in Louisville, in the columns of his Courier-Journal, that the late Col. Henry Watterson (1842-1921) used to thunder about the tariff. It was Col. Watterson who...
The standard having changed, "two things . . . remain to be done in order to maintain it: continue the [immigration] restriction and leave the tariff where it will give full protection. . . .