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...fashioned high-tariff plank of the Republicans was matched with a Democratic promise "to seek by mutual agreement the lowering of . . . tariff barriers." That meant that President Roosevelt would continue to adjust customs rates over the bargain counter of reciprocal agreements with other countries...
...under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers...
...unicameral National Assembly met for the first time. The visible features of their new liberty in-eluded: 1) a school system almost broken down by lack of funds; 2) a sickly economic situation due to get worse as Philippine markets are lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be saddened, its political lord and master, President Manuel Quezon, spoke of these matters in relatively euphemistic terms, although...
...Alfred E. Smith criticized the New Deal by saying that its policies were (1 contrary to the Party platform of 1932, 2 related to Republican tariff policies, 3 reactionary, 4 of greater help to foreign nations than to the U. S., 5 indirectly the cause of deflation...
...believe," continued this talented trio of ex-public servants, "that the time has come to challenge the policies which, under the twelve years of Republican rule, fostered the growth of private monopolies and subsidized them by exclusive privileges of tariff protection. We challenge those policies which under three years of Democratic rule aimed to check, balance and supplement these private monopolies by State-created monopolies and to create new private monopolies based on more legal privileges and subsidies...