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...only famed legislation that bears his name is the 1930 Tariff Act ("Hawley-Smoot") of which he is proud...
...make Europe like the high rates of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act became last week the special duty of John F. Bethune, selected by Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher and his five Tariff Commissioners as their No. 1 representative abroad. For this important foreign post Mr. Bethune has had eleven years' training as secretary to the old Commission in the stuffy, antiquated rooms of Washington's Oil Land Office Building...
...Bethune's job is: 1) to convince manufacturers that the U. S. tariff wall is not so high an obstacle to their exports as they think; 2) somehow to secure from them private information on their production costs which the Tariff Commission may use to make the wall lower or higher...
...Also appointed last week was Sidney Morgan, investigator for the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, to be the Tariff Commission's new secretary...
...front cover)* Even the late, great Theodore Roosevelt was dragged last week into Britain's Imperial Conference tariff controversy (TIME, Oct. 13). Free traders dug out a letter posted to English Editor St. Loe Strachey by President Roosevelt...