Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appointment of Professor Taussig to the new Tariff Board marks a noteworthy advance in American governmental administration of which every American should be proud. Professor Taussig has earned his place at the head of this country's economists largely through his brilliant and thorough investigations of tariff problems, and will now be enabled to use his knowledge in the most direct and practical manner. The value of his services cannot be easily appreciated by anyone who has not read one of his keen and impartial works dealing with the tariff...
Professor Frank William Taussig '79, of the Department of Economics, accepted Saturday his appointment by President Wilson to the Federal Tariff Commission. The other members of this commission which will gather information to aid Congress in revising the tariff will be announced later. It is considered probable that Professor Taussig will be made chairman...
According to unofficial information from Washington it is stated that Professor F. W. Taussig '79 has been asked by President Wilson to become a member of the Federal Tariff Commission, which will gather information for the benefit of Congress in revising the tariff. Professor Taussig declined yesterday to make any statement regarding his appointment...
...sordidness of Wilson's diplomacy; never has a campaign been waged on a more frankly sordid basis than Hughes own! There has been only one real aim: 100 per cent. American rights, 100 per cent, business profits! There has been only one constructive suggestion: 100 per cent. Republican protective tariff, a measure avowedly intended to keep up high prices and restrict the one thing which would do everybody the most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing...
...into the water-tight bulkheads to keep from drowning?" for the continuance of our naval policy, which Mr. Whittlesey is afraid to leave to the party that put into law the naval bill--and to Boise Penrose and Joseph Fordney of "special interest" fame for the "fair and honest" tariff. And as to foreign affairs, they will be in control of such men as James Mann and Henry A. Cooper, of Wisconsin, both of whom voted for the McLemore Resolution, to abrogate American rights...