Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Caraway and other Democrats are inclined to laugh at items on the Republican tariff schedules. Another object of their laughter has been the flexible tariff (the clause in the Tariff Act whereby the President is authorized on recommendation by the Tariff Commission to increase or decrease specific tariffs by not more than 50%, so, as to equalize cost of production between the U. S. and principal competing countries). They point out that the President has increased the duty on certain grains and various minor products; that in spite of the Tariff Commission's recommendation, the President has declined...
...Republican chorus: "The President thinks of the Common People...
Died. Dr. Hugo Preuss, 65, chief author of the German Republican Constitution,* noted post-War German statesman, scholar, professor, jurist, sometime member of both the Prussian Diet and the Imperial Parliament, German Secretary of the Interior in 1918, and noted Jewish intellectual; at Berlin, mourned by almost the entire German press, with the exception of the extreme Monarchist sheetlets...
...Preuss declared that in drawing up the German Republican Constitution he used the Constitution of U. S. as a model, to some extent, but believed that he greatly improved upon...
...Hartford, Conn., one Wesley B. Porter, 66, for 25 years Town Auditor (Republican), ran last week for reelection. "Good old Porter," said the citizens, elected him as usual, went to his house to inform him of the event, found crêpe on the door. Auditor Porter had died the night before...