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...year for meat, the average Italian spends lesa than $46 a year for all his food. The total national income of Italy is 100 billion lire, which amounts to about 26ining 9e Ways and Means Committee because he was not elected to the 67th Congress (1921-23). Mr. Rainey has not liked the first two important measures which came out of the Ways and Means Committee this yearOPEN_P]They produced severally a number of arguments. Mr. Rainey denounced the government of Mussolini, calling it cruel, tyrannical; declared that the U.S. had no business to make an agreement with such...
...opposition to the Italian agreement will be led on the floor of the House by Democrats Hull and Rainey, who believe that Italy has got off too easily and think some time should elapse to enable Italy to get into a more favorable financial condition before an agreement should be made...
Last week the onslaught on the tariff law began. Senator Capper (Republican) declared outright that it must be modified to benefit the farmer. Senator Wheeler, Representative Rainey, ex-Senator Walsh of Massachusetts (Democrats) joined the fray for lower tariffs. And in its midst complaints against the tariff law per se were made by others. Dr. F. W. Taussig of Harvard, the first Chairman of the Tariff Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present...
Such opposition as there was, was carried on almost single-handedly by Congressman Henrv T. Rainey of Illinois?fiery, white-haired, 65, like the President an Amherst man ('83), unlike the President, a Democrat. Since 1903 he has served continuously in the House, with only a recess of two years given him by his constituents at the time of the Harding landslide. Many Democrats, including such prominent members as Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, stood by the bill. But Rainey never flagged in opposition. Every controversial point he fought...
...William Rainey Harper was President from the founding of the University in 1892 to 1906. President Harper was followed by: Harry Pratt Judson (1906-23) ; Ernest DeWitt Burton...