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Peanuts, however, have been his prime interest. His list of peanut products includes milk, butter, cheese, coffee, pickles, shaving lotion, breakfast food, flour, soap, ink, cosmetics, a dandruff remedy. When the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill was in the making, its framers were skeptical as to the need of U. S. farmers for peanut protection. George Washington Carver appeared in Washington, talked for an hour and 45 minutes to the Congressmen. When the bill passed a peanut tariff was in it. In recent years he has tried out peanut oil as a remedy for infantile paralysis, rubbing it into withered muscles...
Benjamin C. Rigger Henry B. Robbins, Edward R. Sargent, Roland W. Smith, Jr., William Sidney Smoot, Jacob I. Toyster, Richard L. Turcotte, and Richard J. Youdin...
...fiscal stewardship of the government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans must be substituted for general charges. Similarly, the Republicans must make specific their programs for peace, neutrality, and the limitation of war profits, make definite their retreat from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, their objections to out-Stimsoning Stimson in the Pacific...
...enacted the Hawley-Smoot tariff [in 1930], designed as nearly as possible to exclude every foreign commodity deemed in the slightest degree competitive with domestic production. Other countries, either in pursuit of a similar policy or in retaliation, increased their tariffs. The inevitable result was to reduce trade further, to create greater unsalable surpluses, to lower living standards, while privation and unemployment raged among millions...
...Governor Landon was right. The American farmer has been sold out. But the Governor is mistaken as to who did the selling and when it occurred. The 'sellout' took place during the Hoover Administration, and it was the Smoot-Hawleyites who did the work...