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...Heber Jedediah Grant of the Mormon Church, are better politicians than economists. Via Senator Reed Smoot they were Washington insiders in the '20s, and via their dozen-odd Senators (most of whom double in silver) they are Washington insiders still. Their achievements: an increased tariff and a domestic quota system...
Every session of Congress is punctuated by the sniping of seven main sugar groups at each other and the public weal. As the balance of power has worked out since 1934, the Mountain beet lobby has grudgingly accepted something between a 1,342,000 and 1,584,000 ton quota. Another 4,700,000 has gone to the refiners of imported cane, allocated as follows: 2,000,000 tons to Cuba, whose cheap cane competes with domestic beet after paying a .9? tariff; the rest to four duty-free areas, the Philippines (nearly 1,000.000 tons), Puerto Rico...
...last week to raise $20,000,000 for war relief (right on the heels of its annual drive, which took in $7,500,000). By week's end the relief fund had reached over $14,000,000. By June 30, the Red Cross hoped to have its quota...
...tape of law threatened to thwart the U. S. will to help. By present immigration statutes, no alien Briton, however young or pathetic, can legally enter the U. S. without going through the slow mill of the quota, nor (by British law) take more than ?10 ($36 last week) out of the United Kingdom...
...will immediately start a survey, through its county societies, to determine the health, military fitness, medical specialties of its 117,000 members. A record will be kept of each man willing to serve, whether in the Army or at a civil post. Each State will have a certain quota of volunteers to fill. If war occurs, men will be called by the county societies as they are needed. There will be no haphazard enlistment of individual doctors, as in World War I. Nor will doctors have to learn how to march and drill, as they...