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...treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
...hummed at an announcement by President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will withdraw on Dec. 7 from President Roosevelt's once-famed "Tariff Truce" (TIME...
...Adoption of a high tariff and embargo policy to correct Turkey's unfavorable trade balance. Successful retreat into economic nationalism...
Although regular lectures, particularly when dull and uninteresting, may not be practical in so controversial a subject as economics, there is reason to believe that an occasional lecture would serve to give the elementary course more unity. Undoubtedly, certain broad topics, such as socialism, tariff, and banking, do not lend themselves to adequate treatment in a small discussion group. They require a depth of learning and clearness of exposition which only the capable lecturer can offer. The discussion of certain other subjects in small groups often is robbed of value by those rabid partisans; ever present, whose personal convictions approach...
Months ago Britain, though slow to bestir herself, started to fight Japan's dumping prices by denouncing the 28-year-old Indo-Japanese trade treaty and sharply upping India's tariffs on non-British cotton. British West Africa followed suit. Egypt, whose fat King Fuad is a British puppet, promptly swung into line with higher tariffs. Later even Dutch Queen Wilhelmina's newly named "Netherlands India" (once the Dutch East Indies) joined in building the white man's tariff dike against Japan's cheap textiles...