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...Renunciation of War was hardly four hours old before the Navy began to feel its influence. Responsive (by prearrangement) to Premier MacDonald's announcement of a reduction in the British naval building program, of British acceptance of thoroughgoing naval parity with the U. S., President Hoover moved to retard the construction of three 10,000-ton cruisers. He publicly explained: cruisers henceforth are not to compete in armament as potential opponents but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. . . . Generally speaking the British cruiser strength considerably exceeds the American strength* and the actual construction of these three cruisers...
...bill continues the President's power to alter rates by 50% but changes the basis from differences in cost of production to difference in conditions of competition wholly within the U. S. market. Prolonged economic research would no longer retard the Tariff Commission's findings under the new plan...
...plan. In a public letter to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he contended that export debentures would: 1) Be a $200,000,000 per year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export market; 7) necessitate further tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations; 9) put U. S. livestock men at a disadvantage by raising...
...haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother's aim, but not all. Ugo has found that by beating his arms he can retard his speed and by shooting out his legs he can increase it. He has learned, too, that a twist of his shoulder will change his course. It is ideal circus stuff...
...Kemal Pasha. At the same time it may be doubted whether the immediate accomplishments of the regime are not too dearly bought. The suppression of free expression and the department of the people from the work of government of the people from the work of government is apt to retard rather than further the national development in the long run. If institutions are really the expression of the social organization it is hardly conceivable that the system should continue long after the country has been restored to health. In short, it is difficult to see how dictatorships could have been...