Word: tariff
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...accept that admirable tariff statement in the platform. We have invited and received the retaliation of other nations. I propose an invitation to them to forget the past, to sit at the table with us as friends and to plan with us for the restoration of the trade world...
...Tariff. ". . . A competitive [one] for revenue . . . a fact-finding commission free from executive interference...
...utterances of high public officials designed to influence stock exchange prices . . . the extravagance of the Farm Board [and] its disastrous action which made the Government a speculator . . . the usurpation of power by the State Department in assuming to pass upon foreign securities offered by international bankers . . . the Hawley-Smoot Tariff...
...Little Three" pledged themselves to "progressive mutual tariff reduction," invited all other countries to adhere to their Pact...
...propose," shouted Senator Barkley, "to reduce the exorbitant and indefensible rates ... to inaugurate friendly international trade conferences. . . . The Democratic Party does not advocate free trade. [We] wrote, sponsored and secured the passage of a measure which ought to lift tariff-making above the sordid processes of log-rollers and back-scratchers and place it upon the high plane of scientific knowledge. ... But Mr. Hoover vetoed the measure...