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...grand party enlivened by song and dance and barrels of whiskey, the brawn of many arms rolled new-cut logs to the centre of a clearing and piled them up to make a cabin. The first law passed by Congress was, it happened, a tariff bill. Since then methods of home construction A dunner was referred to the Embassy...
...quaint little story which has drifted up from Washington lately goes like this: At a recent Harvard Club dinner etc. there the first speaker was Tariff Commissioner Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91. Naturally enough the genial commissioner for lack of something better to say, perhaps, made a point of his great age and generally what an old bird he really was. The next speaker, a member of the class of '21, opened his remarks by saying that compared to Mr. O'Brien he was a more fledgling, etc. etc. Following this, our own James Roosevelt '30 got up to make...
...oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural...
...State Department had found a real flaw. They took the measure back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days later the President blessed it with his signature. ¶Under special powers granted by the Recovery Act, President Roosevelt last week upped the tariff on Japanese cotton rugs from 10? to 25? a sq. yd. The increase, 150%, was three times that which he could have made under the provisions of the flexible tariff law. ¶ Executing a second aboutface, President Roosevelt won a compromise agreement on the Stock Exchange Control bill vhich speeded...
...Permit the President to bargain with foreign nations for mutual tariff reductions; already passed by the House and under debate last week in the Senate...