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...capital again. The Senator remained alone in Washington all winter, all spring. At 70 he is still almost as good a dancer as he was at 50. When one of the Senate pages, having spied him dancing at the Shoreham Hotel with Rose, pretty young daughter of U. S. Tariff Commissioner Thomas Walker Page, referred to him as a "dancing Senator'' in the pages' newspaper, angry Senator McAdoo got the paper suppressed. Another young lady with whom he was often seen was Lyla, daughter of Senator Townsend of Delaware. Social Washington will not be surprised...
...voted against: Boulder Dam (1928), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus...
...Louis Philippe was notoriously stingy; it is doubtful whether he would so generously remember Bishop Flaget who presented a purse of other people's money. 2) Bishop Flaget called on Louis Philippe in France between 1835 and 1839, was received coldly. 3) The Congressmen who introduced the tariff-exemption bills may unwittingly have been quoting rumor; besides a report of the Congressmen's speeches there are no governmental records of Louis Philippe's sending the pictures; the customs' invoice for the articles consigned to Bishop Flaget does not enumerate the articles, name the shipper...
Last week President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Secretaries of War, Commerce and the Treasury to set up in U. S. ports "free trade zones," composed of docks and warehouses carefully fenced off from the rest of the tariff-bound U. S. There vessels will unload their goods and store them for reshipment without any customs formalities. Four such free zones may be established, one at New York, another elsewhere on the Atlantic coast, one at a Gulf port, one at a Pacific port...
Upon Scot MacDonald the impending wreckage of his disarmament hopes threw a strain as severe as that which he, a life-long champion of free trade, faced when his National Government decided to gird up the Empire's loins with a high tariff (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). That crisis was got over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister...