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...voted for: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922); Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
Legislative hobby: a top-notch tariff on sugar to benefit Louisiana's cane industry. Even Utah's Republican Smoot is no higher protectionist than he. He ardently advocates Philippine independence to put that possession's sugar crop outside the tariff wall. He voted for coal, oil and copper tariffs in the 1932 Revenue Act. Because of his passion for Republican tariffs most Democratic leaders eye him with political distrust. To the press gallery he is a Democrat in name only and his vote can generally be anticipated. His proudest political feat was inducing Republicans to agree...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a friendless high-tariff Democrat who has long occupied himself with legislative trifles; a conservative, not over-diligent Senator whose only influence upon national matters is his own vote. His term expires March...
...that in 1931 Great Britain produced five-sevenths of the world's gold. TIME "said the British Empire." The debts are Britain's and she cannot pay them with someone else's gold. Nor can England pay in kind-America won't let her. Your tariff walls prevent such a course. In any case, according to the American theory, every yard of cloth or ton of steel imported means a lowering of the standard of living. This refusal would also apply to services-which could presumably be rendered only in the form of manufacturing operations, transport...
...looks not unlike his erstwhile chief, was snapped up by Louis Kroh Liggett and made vice president of Drug Inc., $60,000,000 Liggett holding company. Mr. Clark became Mr. Liggett's Washington lobbyist. He worked against higher duties on drugs and toilet articles in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, against taxes on cosmetics in the 1932 Revenue Act. Drug Inc. has lent him to the White House, will pay his salary as its campaign contribution...