Word: protestingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...free importation of Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar imports from the Pacific Islands...
...England representatives, fondly eyeing their huge candy industry, cried out in protest against the higher sugar duties. It was recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Tariff Commission advised President Coolidge to reduce the sugar duty to $1.23 as ample protection for domestic producers. With an election approaching, the President refused to act. Cane-growers in Cuba (75% of whom operate on U. S. capital) foresaw disaster for themselves, predicted a 2¢ rise in retail sugar prices, urged a "battle of the American sugar bowl." The House was told by Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee that...
Author Crosby's social thesis is a protest against the urbanizing of Morrisville. Milkman Lovering is his spokesman about the beat of the hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
...Washington, last week, Walter H. Girdler, president of Helium Co., appeared before the Government's new helium committee (Secretaries Adams, Good, Lament) to protest that Government manufacture of helium in competition with private industry is contrary to U. S. policy and precedent, that it threatens harm to commercial aeronautics...
...hostesses shows a charming disregard of what experience has taught about the argumentative powers of women. The Harvard half, or fraction, of the impending debate has proved its searage, if nothing more, by putting itself in the place where there is a possibility, at least, of hearing the ladies protest too much...