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...increase of duty on most French imports. When it was presented to the House of Commons for approval three days later, only a handful of Laborites and Free Traders voted against it. Even monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, famed as Britain's ablest Francophile, voted for the tariff. More in sorrow than in anger he announced...
...enough almost certainly to muff the investigation. In Paris and the provinces workmen hurried to replace broken pillars, smashed street lights, shop windows, fire hydrants-every trace of last fortnight's bloody riots. The Cabinet did its best to give taxpayers something else to think about. A snarling tariff war with Britain got under way (see p. 13). Foreign Minister Louis Barthou sent a blunt answer to Germany's latest demand for rearmament. He made three points...
...stock of their companies. ¶ President Roosevelt sent another message to Congress recommending that sugar be made a basic commodity, proposing definite quotas for the various sources of U. S. sugar supply. Restriction would be paid for by a processing tax, but a reduction in the sugar tariff would keep the consumer from bearing the burden. This proposal promised relief not only for an industry that has been sunk in overproduction for a full decade but also for hard-pressed Cuba. The preliminary quotas proposed by the President: U. S. Sugar Beets. . . . . . . . 1,450,000 short tons...
...country refuses to accept gold as the final discharge of a commercial obligation, free trade and cancellation become sole alternatives. The choice between cancellation and free trade is politically no choice at all; and the outcome, even if no more than the destruction of another meaningless political fetish, the tariff, will have more than earned the professors their salt...
...three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...