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Time Marches On to complete his twelfth trek for the movies. This month we learn about the salvation of the new-fangled fishermen of Boston and the old-fashioned fishermen of Gloucester through the retention of the anti-Canadian tariff; the contemplation by the French authorities of abandoning the penal camp in French Guiana (Devil's Island being the famous part) because of the new racket of facilitating escapes; and the psychological and social reasons for the recent militaristic coup in Japan...
...other than the Daimler invariably used by King Edward VII and King George V. The United Kingdom's motor industry is acutely sensitive to Canadian competition, has not hesitated to sneer in paid advertisements at "the American cars which are so conveniently brought in from Canada" under Empire tariff agreements. At great advertising expense a feeling has been nurtured in the United Kingdom that to buy a Canadian car from beyond the seas is not really to "Buy British." This notion was blasted and a page of Empire business history turned when it was announced by London...
...enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically ran the country from 1897 to 1905 when the quartet broke publicly with Roosevelt I. In 1909, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he was co-author of the notorious Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act which cost the Republicans the House of Representatives in the 1910 election. After 30 years in his seat Senator Aldrich retired...
...retired from Congres but turned up frequently in Washington as a lobbyist for the glove industry. Especially in 1922, when he got the duty on cotton gloves upped 15%, Mr. Littauer deemed his tariff lobbying a public service on behalf of his neighbors and business associates...
...presently took over and built up his father's business. Gloveman Littauer's own career as a public servant began in 1897 when his glovemaking neighbors sent him to Congress. For the next ten years he faithfully pursued their interests by working for a higher tariff on gloves...