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Vincent Paul Sullivan is one of the few radio news commentators without a newspaper background. Twenty-eight-year-old son of Missouri Pacific Railroad's chief tariff inspector, he was born in St. Louis, operated an amateur radio station as a boy, worked as announcer at various Midwestern stations after leaving Christian Brothers College and studying law. He reads aloud at home to improve his enunciation, has been broadcasting WLW's news reports, written from wire service releases by the station's newsroom, since last year...
Adolphe A. Berle, City Chamberlain of New York and member of the original brain trust, has agreed to be the guest speaker at luncheon on Friday. Alan M. Fox, Director of Research of the U. S. Tariff Commission, will sit at the Round Table on Foreign Trade...
...President of the U. S. Then a commonwealth would be set up for four years and immediately appropriations of U. S. money for the islands, with certain minor reservations, would cease. There would be free trade between Puerto Rico and the U. S. for one year, 25% of existing tariff duties for the second, 50% for the third year, 75% for the fourth. On the fourth day of July, immediately following expiration of the four-year period, Puerto Rico would become independent. Thereafter Puerto Rican imports to the U. S., like those of any other foreign country, would...
...corn in such a way that the annual production of the country was increased, he is now engaged in the seemingly hopeless task of getting rid of a huge surplus. His ideas on the subject, expressed in his recent publication, "America Must Choose," relate the surplus question to the tariff. As his solution of the problem, Mr. Wallace advocates a "middle course" of reciprocal trade agreements...
Also attending will be Thomas Gammack, executive assistant to James M. Landis, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Robert Lincoln O'brien, Chairman of the Tariff Commission, for the Foreign Affairs table...