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...entire country was strangling in the tentacles of a financial and industrial Depression the like of which had never been known in our history. The Wilson Tariff-for-Revenue-Only bill had been enacted into law. It was an uneconomic measure. ... It quenched the fires of industry, stilled the hum of machinery everywhere in the land...
...public mind N.A.M. has always been identified by two consistent policies-high tariff and open shop. In recent years these two have been almost submerged by the rise of a third, if unwritten policy-Anti-New Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when the most charitable liberal observation was the New Republic's: that that year's convention was a "perfect example of Bourbonism in full flower." Even the New York Times remarked caustically that "spokesmen for business organizations ought not to sound like the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Most frequent criticism of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, under which Cordell Hull has patiently woven a network of reciprocal trade treaties with 16 foreign countries, is that tariff concessions granted to any signatory country are automatically extended to 70-odd non-signatory countries with which the U. S. has "most-favored-nation" agreements. From the standpoint of Free Trader Hull, this is the strongest point of his policy since generalizing concessions tends to increase the volume of world trade. But it has given many a Hull critic an opportunity to argue that with U. S. tariff favors...
...best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders as "Mr. Louie"-succeeded to his father's goats. Few Texas Angoras have...
...When the tariff on importing Spanish onions, which had been a large portion of their business, grew prohibitive, Dingfelder & Balish pioneered in importing Spanish onionseed; U. S. production of Spanish onions, which are the choicest of all, in 1921 was only 500 carloads. This year it is about 12,000. Total U. S. onion production last year was 70,000 carloads, of which Dingfelder & Balish handled more than any other firm. Also interested in potatoes, they had gross sales of $5,000,000. Last month after some disagreements Onion King Balish bought out his partner. Last week the new firm...