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...interested in your April 4 observation that "Before the [Senate] Finance Committee hearings were well under way, more than 100 amendments had been introduced, nearly all of them tossing a tariff sop to localized industries, with little regard for the common good." I sincerely hope that you were not including in that list of 100 amendments that which I have introduced . . . Briefly, the Watkins amendment would...
...expect (or want) its Senators to be Solomons, and the problem posed by the foreign-trade bill demands not legendary wisdom but simple legislative responsibility. Before the Finance Committee hearings were well under way, more than 100 amendments had been introduced, nearly all of them tossing a tariff sop to localized industries with little regard for the common good...
Wilson had taken a theme from Ae-sop ("The Two Dogs").* According to the transcript, this is what he said...
...That France accept limited German-sovereignty as a sop to Washington, London and Bonn...
...contract and not binding on the company), President Frank H. James gave his assurance that Norwalk would continue to be the company's center of operations. To the men who had trod the bricks for ten months, it was a face-saving gesture-and a costly sop. During the strike the workers lost more than $4,000,000 in wages, and the union went into debt by floating a $500,000 bond issue to support the strikers...