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...flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent to the U. S. by charitable foreigners...
...Political Consequences of Economic Policies. Under this heading John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, will speak on "The International Consequences of Stabilization Agreements," while Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission, will talk on "The International Consequences of Reciprocal Trade Treaties...
...pear core incident is palatable news in any language, but only with the tedious figures of economists is it possible to show that Japan has been exacting for years from China concession after concession involving millions if not billions in tariff favors. The state railways of the Chinese Dictator have in certain instances run each day and for as many months as required, a special "smugglers' freight car" for the convenience of Japanese and Koreans engaged in systematically evading the customs duties of North China. One can buy Japanese goods openly in China today at prices less than...
...Hannah Mayer Stone, 120 rubber pessaries. Dr. Stone intended to try the devices on 120 women clients of the Manhattan Birth Control Bureau, first and busiest of 283 similar centres now disseminating information and supplies in 42 states. U. S. customs officials promptly confiscated the pessaries under the Tariff Act of 1930. That law is the result of a Federal statute which the late gorilla-like prude, Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), rammed down Congress' throat in 1873. These statutes lump contraceptives with abortifacients, smutty writings and lewd picture postcards as "obscene," and forbid anyone to import, mail or ship...
...with something tangible to its credit. Too often in the past have the hopes of waiting nations been reduced to disillusionment through months of selfish quarrelings and too many times have delegations repacked their luggage to trail home empty-handed. Economic conferences, disarmament conferences, treaty revision conferences, battleship parleys, tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed by millions and all have spent time and wasted money with little to show for it. In short the nations of the world have talked, but few have acted in concert or with the aim of peace or concord uppermost...