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...found in the words of any presidential possibility. Excerpts: "We need to know more of the world as it is and to discard for ourselves, as we have for our daughters, the hoopskirts and false unfrankness of the crinoline age. . . . Our politics raises its petty barriers [the Republican tariff?] oblivious of the mighty forces which men have let loose upon themselves. . . . "Our economics are necessarily international because of our interdependence upon each other. Our politics are national, increasingly so. ... The forces are violent and imposing. ... It is the uncertainty which political action threatens which paralyzes economic efforts in this world...
...give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced an entirely new, voluminous tariff bill...
...when he spoke. He has been in London these past few weeks with Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett of Canada at the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 13 to Nov. 24). Mr. McFarland saw his chief stand up among the other Empire Prime Ministers and propose the erection of a tariff wall around the Empire, one effect of which would have been that the Mother Country would have saved the Canadian situation by buying most of Canada's wheat. Devoutly may U. S. farmers give thanks that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden set his little steel-trap jaw against...
Mister, or rather Monsieur. Roy saw to it that Mr. Bennett (no Monsieur he) was banqueted first by the French National Association for Economic Expansion, then officially by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin, famed for his philippics against the U. S. tariff. With his usual candor Mr. Bennett said that what he was after was French orders for Canada's surplus wheat, and rumors were not long in growing that what M. Flandin was after was Canadian orders for French surplus wine. In recent years the French have shown a tendency to buy more wheat from Canada, less...
Indeed even before the President's telegram was answered, the serious voice of Virginia's Senator Carter Glass proclaimed: "No group of Democrats, however distinguished or discerning, should feel obliged to pledge their party associates in Congress not severely to disturb the most infamous tariff act ever enacted by a legislative body. ... I confess to some astonishment that anybody should feel impelled to apologize for an apparent Democratic victory. . . ." Many another voice, particularly from the South, echoed Senator Glass. By the week's end, what looked like a real revolt against the seven leaders (Messrs. Smith. Davis, Cox, Robinson, Garner...