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There is the U. S.'s sky-high Hawley-Smoot Tariff, to the enactment of which Canada retorted with retaliatory tariffs (TIME, Sept. 29, 1930). Already this mischief, furthered by Depression, has gone so far that U. S. exports to Canada have fallen thus...
...utterances of high public officials designed to influence stock exchange prices . . . the extravagance of the Farm Board [and] its disastrous action which made the Government a speculator . . . the usurpation of power by the State Department in assuming to pass upon foreign securities offered by international bankers . . . the Hawley-Smoot Tariff...
...voted against: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), equalization fee for farm relief (1928), Congressional reapportionment (1929), the Sales Tax (1932), State option on Prohibition...
Absentees. The continued session of Congress and a general lack of interest kept many a familiar G. O. Politician away from Chicago. Senators Borah. Watson and Smoot, prime figures at Kansas City in 1928, were absent. Andrew William Mellon was at his London post. Claudius Huston who led the Hoover "Boy Scouts" four years ago> could not be found around the Stadium. Allan Hoover, a spectator at his father's first nomination, missed his renomination...
...Hawley-Smoot Tariff...