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...point that the President was trying to drive home: the U. S. will have to take more foreign-made goods or stop shipping so much U. S. goods abroad. Once the President got that fact firmly in the public mind, he would have an easier time cutting tariff rates under the law Congress gave him fortnight...
...trial period. ¶Prohibition against loans, public or private, to any nation in default on its debts to the U. S. C. A tax law to plug leaks and raise $417,000,000 per year. ¶A commission to regulate stock exchanges. ¶Authority for the President to reduce tariff rates 50% in negotiating for reciprocal tariff reductions by other nations. C. New methods for municipal and corporate bankruptcy...
...filed 24 hours in advance, thus preventing one company from stealing a march on its competitors. The code specifically forbids destructive price cutting, gives the Code Authority power to fix prices in an emergency or suspend code provisions if they go too high. Actually, with a 4?-per-lb. tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator...
...Indiana the Republican state convention denounced the Administration's tariff-bargaining law (see p. 13), scored the cut in veterans' pensions...
...Senate committee, a New York City charter commission, a League of Nations assembly, proceed to thrash out the question at hand with all due form & ceremony. At this year's final conference last month the School was the U. S. House Ways & Means Committee, .considering the reciprocal tariff bill (see p. 13). Preparatory experts were chairman and ex-chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission. The conferees plumped for amendments which the real U. S. Senate adopted one week later. The scheme works. Princeton has lately begun to lead the nation in graduates accepted for the U. S. Foreign...