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...Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...
Thomas W. Stephenson '37, arguing the Crimson case from another angle, pointed out that unstable economic conditions abroad would be reflected here by chaos. "The immigration of cheap foreign labor which must result from a lower tariff can have no other effect than to lower our standard of living," he said...
...other side the Harvard debaters maintained that it was chiefly the sugar interests, desiring the removal of the high protective tariff which America has placed on Hawaiian sugar, that are back of the cry for statehood. Showing that the population was only one-ninth Caucasian and that the high birth-rate of the Japanese pointed towards further Japanese preponderance, the Debating Council brought the discussion to a close in claiming that the granting of statehood to Hawaii would exclude American influence and the island soon would be in the hands of the Japanese...
During the Great War, Professor Taussig not only acted as chairman of the Tariff Commission in 1917, but subsequently served the Treasury, the Food Administration, and the War Industries Board. In the spring of 1919 he went abroad to take part in the economic sessions of the peace negotiations...
...University no whit less. Best known to undergraduates, perhaps, is his "Principles of Economics" which together with his other copious writings has colored the economic thought of the country for almost forty years. Outside of strictly academic pursuits he found myriad interests ranging from Chairman of the Wilson Tariff Commission in 1917 to editorship of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which post he has held with distinction since...