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...Confirmed Henry Prather Fletcher, Thomas Walker Page, John Lee Coulter, Alfred Pearce Dennis, Lincoln Dixon and Edgar Brossard as U. S. Tariff Commissioners...
...Constitution is the struggle between the President and the Senate for power. Last week President Hoover and the Senate became deadlocked in another major battle which made their past controversies over tariff flexibility, export debenture and drought relief look small. By snatching at the President's prime executive authority?his control of appointees?the Senate provoked a controversy which only the Supreme Court can authoritatively settle. By fighting back at the Senate's aggression President Hoover maintained the ancient tradition of his great office...
Adopted a resolution requiring the Tariff Commission to investigate fresh pineapples...
...Tariff. "The most serious of the adverse factors affecting business is the inability of foreign countries to obtain dollars in amounts sufficient both to make interest and-amortization payments on their debts to us and to buy our exports in adequate volume. From the middle of 1924 to 1929 we delayed the adverse effect of our high tariffs upon our exports by heavy buying of foreign bonds. . . . Our alternative today is. therefore, either a reduction of our tariffs, or readjustment to our greatly reduced volume of exports. ... A reduction in tariff, made in the interest not of change...
Embargo, like Tariff, is a game at which any number of nations can play. In Washington, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board is calling for "a temporary embargo on wheat imports" (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week Argentina got into the game. Her new Provisional Government, headed by swart, hard-eyed, big-mustachioed General Uriburu, suddenly declared an absolute embargo on "Paraguay...