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...commercial and industrial history of the United States since 1760, covering the economic and public problems of the tariff, railroads, and great industrial corporations, will be taught by Professor Abbott P. Usher, of Harvard...
...males pay a head tax of $1 apiece. The tax receipts have been the means whereby voters are identified. Philippine President Manuel Quezon last week announced that he would veto the woman suffrage bill unless it imposed a poll tax on women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino voters...
...Utah before 350 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners. "The logical solution of the railroad difficulties," he drawled, "seems to be one national railroad system. Such a system should result in a simple rate structure, no differently rated territories, uniform tariff classifications, transportation wastes reduced to a minimum, and many other manifest benefits. . . ." More significant were other remarks by Chairman Miller on the matter of railroad freight rates. Without particularizing, he declared that the I. C. C. is conducting an intensive study of the rate problem and that he himself favors...
...never been revealed, for Colonel Walker and Son Walter Delawater Walker are incurably publicity-shy, but zippermen estimate it as about 35,000,000 zippers a year, or 75% of total U. S. production. Hookless' only worry is Japan, which has jumped into zippers and, despite a 66% tariff, can still undersell Hookless by 25% in the U. S. Last year Japan sold 26,000,000 zippers in the U. S. But Hookless has little to fear. FORTUNE estimated Hookless gross at $4,500,000 in 1931, and it is presumably over $6,000,000 now, with profits near...
...House had plenty of help in making up its mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for Congressmen in his swank 23rd Street home. Economist-Lobbyist John E. Dalton, ex-chief of sugar for AAA, wrote carefully prepared treatises and reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi...