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...winter long the Senate Insurgents clamored for a special session of Congress in which to continue their discussion of such politico-economic topics as Depression, Unemployment, Power, Farm Relief, Tariff. They failed to get one. Therefore last week in the ballroom of Washington's exclusive Carlton Hotel they, their families and friends to the number of 200 held a special session of their own at which they succeeded in publicizing these subjects more widely, if more briefly, than they could have at the Capitol. Present were college professors, economists, labor leaders, farm representatives, editors, writers, lawyers, politicians, critics...
Senator Watson: When a man gets mad and resorts to ridicule and personalities, it is proof conclusive he is seeking to evade the real question. The fact is I never was a lobbyist at Washington, except for the Manufacturers Association for a tariff...
...Your reference to the $1,000,000 bonus paid to you by Mr. Carnegie 30 years ago does not mention that the fabulous profits realized then by the iron and steel industry were due not so much to any super-management but rather to the utterly unjustified high protective tariff and the rail pool. No such profits are obtained today...
...Tariff-born Deal. From the Ohio mills of Republic Steel Corp. much unfinished steel used to go to its subsidiary Canadian Metal Products Co. Ltd. at Guelph, Ont. (where was born Arthur W. Cutten, famed Chicago bull). Last week Canadian Metal Products was sold to Burlington Steel Co. Ltd. of Hamilton, Ont. The new Canadian tariff on steel was responsible for the deal...
...been a lawyer in Oklahoma for 30 years, has grown up with the oil industry in that state. In the Senate oil is his chief interest-the oil of independent producers as distinguished from the oil imported by the big refining companies. He battled for a $1-per-bbl. tariff and lost. He battled for an embargo on oil imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed...