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...Philadelphia Republican, Manuel Fox joined the U.S. Tariff Commission in 1923. Closer to the New Deal than many a good Democrat, he became vice chairman of the Committee for Reciprocity Information (which is a wailing wall for U.S. industrialists who want to keep their tariff protection) in 1938, next year headed an economic mission to Venezuela. But his China assignment last week was his toughest to date...
...move. They did not go so far as to suggest that the U.S. should follow the Golden Rule. They did, however, propose that Congress set up a Federal agency to study the economic harm that might be done to other countries by any proposed change in U.S. foreign trade, tariff, immigration or monetary policy...
...other words, the Committee did not suggest that the U.S. abridge its right to pass laws which might throw thousands of people out of work elsewhere (as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff did). What they urged was that before such laws can be passed, Congress should be legally bound to ascertain what their effect abroad would be, so that it could legislate with its eyes open...
...most-favored-nation basis, the treaty called for reciprocal tariff reductions and shipping concessions. It gave Japan the right to join Indo-China in exploiting her undeveloped resources (formerly a French monopoly), provided for the building of Japanese schools in Indo-China...
...Tariff. In Salt Lake City, a Utah Writers' Project researcher discovered that in 1862 frontier impresarios solved an old theatrical problem with the sign: Admission-adults, 35? babes in arms...