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...Nations when it would have done the most good, and we failed to give our full support to Great Britain's earnest efforts to provide for international consultation in case of war. We have primly stood aside and watched the democracies of Europe destroy one another with exorbitant tariff walls and injure the cause of peace by their own petty jealousies. Our stand-offish attitude has split the solidarity of those nations working for peace and the respect of international law, while it has also encouraged the marauding lawless powers to grow increasingly reckless in their violations of treaties...
Abbott P. Usher, professor of Economics, will trace the commercial and industrial history of the United States since 1760, dealing especially with the problems of public policy in the tariff, rail-roads, and the great industrial corporations. The class will meet in Emerson A on Thursdays at 5:15 o'clock...
Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompers' short, swart "Crown Prince," a high-tariff Republican who wears wing collars and is as conservative as a life insurance company president, which he is (Union Labor Life). Luxemburg-born, he is more sophisticated than his A. F. of L. colleagues, dislikes Bill Green almost as much as he does John Lewis...
Hull. In his gentle old voice Secretary of State Cordell Hull reiterated his best-known belief, that the world's woes will remain until tariff barriers are reduced. He reinforced it with up-to-date facts: "In 1936 our export trade with 14 countries, with which trade agreements were in effect all or part of that year, increased by 18.2% over 1935, while our trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe...
Ridden by heavy taxes and a feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening...