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...Congress: Seniority of service (23 years) has advanced him to the Republican chairmanship of the potent House Ways & Means Committee where all tax and tariff legislation originate. Though his position is outranked only by those of the Speaker, the Majority Floor Leader, the Chairman of the Rules Committee, he does not exercise an influence on the House equal to his high rank. In committee younger members like New Jersey's Bacharach supply the real driving force...
...voted for: Tax Reduction (1922, 1924, 1927, 1929), Boulder Dam (1928), Farm Relief (1929), the Jones ("Five & Ten") law, Reapportionment (1929), Tariff...
...Steps Snowden. At heart all British Laborites are free traders, because they are all Socialists. Scot MacDonald's wavering toward an Empire tariff wall in recent weeks (TIME, Sept. 15) has merely reflected the fear of many Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial...
Inconsistent Ramsay. The Prime Minister dashed from the Imperial Conference at London to speak at Llandudno last week, won a vote of confidence on government policy. His speech was amazing. In some passages Mr. MacDonald flayed the very notion of putting a tariff wall around the Empire, called all tariffs "quack remedies"; but soon he was threatening reprisals?apparently tariff reprisals ?against nations which should raise their tariffs against Empire goods...
...company's ground publicist is Cecil ("Stu") Hawley, son of tariff-making Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon. As chief of the company's road information service he annually motors thousands of miles at record speeds. Last August he motored from Manhattan to Los Angeles in 67 hr. 38 min., the record. Also a record was his round trip time...