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...King" McManes formed Philadelphia's habit of burying the Democratic Party. The political pattern in Pennsylvania was for 70 years after: 1) that old families, business and the Republican ticket were respectable, Democrats and reformers were not; 2) that Republicans were regarded as the guardians of the protective tariff and thus of the American way of life; 3) that Pennsylvania should always go Republican in national elections...
...tall tree toppled by New Deal axmen in 1932 was lugubrious, bony, prophetic Reed Smoot, Utah Senator since 1903. Except for an occasional cussing-out as author of the Smoot-Hawley tariff, Latter-Day-Saint Apostle Smoot was promptly forgotten by a busy U. S., and his dismal prophecies with him. Last week thoughtful newsmen realized that at least two of gloomy Oldster Smoot's melancholy forecasts were being realized...
...With almost evenly divided opinions, and studied calm, listened quietly as debate began on extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for three years. Said Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.): to abandon the policy of tariff-making by the President and State Department would mean a new and vast trade war. Opposed to the bill, Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.) insisted that all trade agreements should have the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Only disturbance occurred when a chair leg collapsed, dumped surprised Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) on the floor...
...Removed all tariff barriers between the two nations...
...time he reached Miami's Bayfront Park, where 4,000 oldsters and youngsters heard him castigate NLRB ("a new one ... on which employers and employes are represented rather than left-wing enthusiasts") ; Trade Treaties ("The Republican Party believes in imposing and retaining a tariff equal to the difference in cost of production abroad . . ."); SEC ("amended to be what it was intended to be, a protection against fraud, and not a weapon [of] the Government"); the Wage-Hour Law ("Nothing [so] threatens to throttle small business today . . ."); Social Security's payroll tax ("particularly oppressive"), Bob Taft was well into...