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Professor Taussig has served on the Harvard faculty since 1882, and has held the positions of chairman of the United States Tariff Commission and president of the American Economic Association. He is at present editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, a position he has filled since...
...first book, "The Tariff History of the United States," reflected his major interest in the field of Economics, in the pursuit of which he has become world-renowned. As early as 1892 he was drawn into the national economic situation, being one of a deputation sent to Washington to protest against threatened legislation for free silver...
...President will be elected for six years and will not be eligible to succeed himself. Salary: $15,000. He has power to veto not only whole bills but any item in an appropriation, revenue or tariff bill. The Legislature cannot, with two minor exceptions, appropriate more money than he asks for in his budget. The Vice President may serve in his Cabinet and Cabinet members may address the Legislature...
...present the whole picture. Cuba's constant dissatisfaction with government is firmly grounded in its extensive sugar fields, and their relation to the United States. It is a familiar, unsavory story of a small group, in this case beet sugar growers in the South, obtaining a high protective tariff on Cuban sugar, despite the fact that it is economically unsound. The result of setting up such lofty tariff walls in the past few decades has been a paralysis of Cuba's mainspring of economic life, the sugar industry...
...United States, rather it is a test of Cuban patriotism. Cuban revolutions, strikes, and disorder, which we are inclined to view merely with academic interest, except when our pocketbooks are affected, might well become things of the past if the United States were willing to make more equitable a tariff which is slowly driving to self destruction a nation which American effort and money helped to build...