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Goaded, Scot MacDonald made his most important public statement in recent months. He revealed that the Labor Cabinet, dominated by Free-Trader Philip Snowden, has decided to refuse the dominion prime ministers' demand that Great Britain lay a tariff on non-Empire foodstuffs, such a tariff being intended to result in larger purchases of foodstuffs by the Mother Country from her dominions. Briefly, momentously the Prime Minister said...
Thus defiantly Scot MacDonald stated the fact that millions of Great Britain's laboring men will not stand for a tax or tariff of any sort which they think might raise the price of bread. His words were widely said to have "killed the Conference" which made no progress last week, prepared to adjourn...
That the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was, as a whole, futile and that the various measures adopted therein are little more than gestures, "made because the Republicans had vaunted the tariff as a never-failing remedy and were under bonds to keep their promises for this sort of relief," and that the most important result of the new tariff up to now has been to irritate Canada are the opinions expressed by Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, in an article which is to appear in the November issue of the Economic Quarterly...
...Tennessee, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois, Colorado and Massachusetts. Democrat headquarters was spending heavily to win Senate seats in Oklahoma, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio. A thousand Democratic dollars had been despatched to Oregon to beat Republican Willis Chatman Hawley, co-author of the new Tariff...
With Empire statesmen at home and those from beyond the seas thus divided most ominously among themselves on the great tariff issue, bewildered Mother England looked for a solution to the oldest, greatest of her institutions: Parliament...