Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists...
Current state of the Philippines, as defined in the 1934 McDuffie-Tydings Act, calls for complete independence on July 4, 1946. Preceding independence, Philippine trade preferences with the U. S.- whereby sub-quota exports of major Philippine products are 100% tariff-exempt- would be reduced by annual steps, so that by 1946 Philippine products would pay the same tariffs as any other foreign nation...
...Mlle. Boulanger, for the authorities do not even supply enough money to take care of the courses already in progress. In the second place, like certain interests who are afraid of competition from foreign coolie labor, the authorities object to women on the Harvard Faculty and put up a tariff against them. Harvard Faculty women now number three--and they were only admitted after a noisy struggle...
This advice is, of course, to: 1) lower tariff walls; 2) abolish quota restrictions; 3) stabilize currencies; 4) restore freedom of exchanges; 5) balance budgets. Having dropped in at the White House and made the rounds of Europe, M. van Zeeland picked five nations as the Great Powers most apt to take what he considers the standard brands of good advice...
...Cardenas it was clear last week that Mexico will have much more money to spend on his own New Deal if it spends less money abroad. Because Cardenas not long ago promised that he would make no further use of his extraordinary powers after Jan. 1, 1938, his drastic tariff decree was carefully dated...