Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only famed legislation that bears his name is the 1930 Tariff Act ("Hawley-Smoot") of which he is proud...
...make Europe like the high rates of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act became last week the special duty of John F. Bethune, selected by Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher and his five Tariff Commissioners as their No. 1 representative abroad. For this important foreign post Mr. Bethune has had eleven years' training as secretary to the old Commission in the stuffy, antiquated rooms of Washington's Oil Land Office Building...
...President Hoover's addresses of the week (see above), Vice President Charles Curtis took the stump for some of the speech-making he is not allowed while presiding over the Senate. Opening Delaware's Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
Secretary Stimson declared President Hoover had made 35 campaign pledges, had fulfilled 34 of them.? He cited major accomplishments: i) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act; 2) Federal Farm Board; 3) a I% income tax reduction (for 1929 only) ; 4) increased public construction; 5) increased merchant marine; 6) cruiser limitation under the London Naval Treaty; 7) improved Latin-American relations...
...this loss up to some $300,000,000. Already U. S. exports to Canada are down $155,000,000 for the first seven months of 1930, a thumping loss due partially of course to "depression." Canadian exports to the U. S., battling to scale the U. S. Hawley-Smoot tariff wall (which provoked Canadian retaliation in the first place) are down $42,000,000. Canada and the U. S., each the other's best customer, are today at grips in deadly tariff war. Producer's Promises. Expounding his bill last week, Prime Minister Bennett said that the Canadian...