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...voted for: Tariff (1922, 1930). Restrictive Immigration (1924), 15-cruiser bill (1928), Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Jones (Five & Ten) Act (1929), Reapportionment (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), Debt Moratorium (1931), R. F. C. (1932), Labor's Anti-injunction bill (1932), billion-dollar naval building bill (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Revenue...
...interest outside the United States of any kind, including oil," President Hoover last week telegraphed G. O. Partisans in Southern California. They had complained that Democrats were circulating stories to the effect that President Hoover had large foreign oil holdings which made him unsympathetic to an oil tariff. The President added that he did not believe an oil duty could have been voted into the 1932 Revenue Act without his support...
...grey shawl of early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
...Passed by tremendous Conservative majorities of over 200 the preliminary enabling bills for the Ottawa tariff accords (TIME, Oct. 24). Though the free trade Laborites and Liberals never mustered more than 90 opposition votes, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain thought it necessary to lecture them, taking as his text Charles M. Schwab. Steelman Schwab had just said in London, ''Of course my business will be hurt by the Ottawa accords, but if the British Empire prospers as a result that will help us all," Cried Chancellor Chamberlain to the House of Commons, "There is true statesmanship...
...Were told by breezy Dominion Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas that the Anglo-Russian Trade Treaty of 1930 is incompatible with the Ottawa tariff accords, and that therefore His Majesty's Government renounced the treaty last week, giving the Soviet Government the required six-months notice before trade rupture becomes effective. Mr. Thomas mentioned Argentina, Denmark, Norway and Sweden as countries invited by His Majesty's Government last week to send representatives to London "for the purpose of discussing tariffs"- this being Great Britain's opening move in a campaign to force the U. S.. France...