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...scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread out his cuttings. He picked up a paragraph on balancing the Budget and a paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study door, told the President it was nearly train time. Into a big envelop the loose paragraphs remaining...
...attendant. "No, radio," replied Mrs. Derby. Thereupon she tuned in the attendant's set, heard a familiar voice: "For the good of the nation we must re-elect Herbert Hoover. We don't want our country to be made a laboratory for wholesale experiments in government ownership, tariff tinkering or currency inflation. I don't accuse the Democratic standard bearer of advocating all these theories but any sensible individual knows that when you marry you don't merely marry your wife but her family as well." The speaker was Mrs. Derby's older brother Theodore...
...wheat, long buoyed above world prices by the Farm Board, was seeking a level which would make exports possible. Although the Farm Board has been out of the market since June 1931 its huge wheat holdings, estimated at 28,000,000 bu., and the prohibitive U. S. wheat tariff, have created an artificially high price for U. S. wheat. This year's U. S. crop of 712,000,000 is smaller than the average but enough to crush the U. S. market unless some of it can be exported. Exports can be arranged when Liverpool prices are about...
...first speaker, Congressman Luce, stated that the national election was more a matter of the character of the presidential nominee, than of party differences in principles. He then went on to the tariff, which the speaker claimed as a dead issue. Commodore Jahncke spoke next, and dealt mainly with the character and personality of President Hoover. The President, the speaker said, is "very human," and greatly interested in the Navy department...
...economic nationalism in the current issue of Foreign Affairs lifts the discussion of the present crisis out of the level of immediate economics into politics. The world is faced, as he says, with a choice between a further development of the closed national economic units contained within high tariff walls which we have at present and a breaking down of these barriers to allow international circulation of trade. But it is not merely a choice of two economic systems, it is a choice of two contrasting world orders...