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...tariff Republicans call Cordell Hull a free-trader. He calls himself a Jeffersonian Democrat committed to tariff-for-revenue-only. In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic nationalism...
...Smith '35 (A), 3-0; R. S. Greene '34 (Low) defeated Howard Rosenfeld '35 (A), 3-0; V. R. Montanari '33 (Low) defeated Dexter Newton '35 (A), 3-0; F. L. Wiegand '35 (Low) defeated J. B. Mulford '35 (A), 3-0; Hamlton Gray '33 (Low) defeated C. H. Smoot...
Their remarks were not addressed to Utah's grim, bespectacled Reed Smoot who as the committee's Republican chairman sat nodding at the head of the long green-baize table. He is a lame duck, soon to fall from his roost. Nor did the witnesses talk to impress Michigan's white-crested Couzens or Pennsylvania's sad-faced Reed or Wisconsin's pompadoured La Follette. All these would soon be in an impotent Republican minority. The man the witnesses knew they were talking to was the tall, rangy, half-bald Democrat who slumped...
...composed its differences, balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back and listened, with what seemed to be complete agreement, to the expression of conservative business opinion...
...Received from Utah's Smoot. as the result of a dare by Maryland's Tydings, a bill limiting compensation to veterans disabled in line of military duty. C Heard Michigan's wealthy Couzens exclaim: "This talk of 'no money' is silly. Look at the millions and millions that are used looking after bugs, insects and pigs. We spend money for reforestation that will be of no benefit for 40 or 50 years. We appropriate for migratory birds-my God, migratory birds!-and yet we say there is not enough money for human relief...