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...advice of the Tariff Commission President Roosevelt cut the duty on imported beer from $31 to $15.50 per bbl. That still left the rate $10.50 per bbl. higher than the tax on domestic beer...
...took his S.B. at Vanderbilt in the Class of 1903, received a Harvard A.M. in 1905, and a Ph.D. in 1908. Mr. Jones has been a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1912. During the war years of 1917-1919 he was chief chemist for the United States Tariff Commission...
Sanctions and regional pacts for sanctions will be discussed respectively by the two committees on legal and constitutional questions. The third committee will consider international control of propaganda; the fourth, non-tariff trade barriers; the fifth, control of munitions; and the sixth, control of terrorist activities...
...foreign film and pondered for the Secretary of the Treasury the question of whether or not its public showing in the U. S. would damage the morals of the nation. Last November a print of Extase had been seized by customs inspectors under the indecency provisions of the Tariff Act when an attempt was made to import it in Manhattan. But when the time came last week to preview the picture in Washington, Secretary Morgenthau found himself so busy that he sent his wife to help render a decision...
...islands have always felt that independence would be unqualified disaster. More & more Filipinos were coming to believe that it would not be an unqualified blessing. Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, talked seriously with the visitors about continuing some sort of ties with the U. S. -tariff favors, for example. The Philippine Sugar Association, the Philippine-American Trade Association, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and numerous local politicians all talked to the same tune...