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...voted for: Tax Reduction (1929), the Tariff (1930), confirmation of John Johnston Parker as a justice of the Supreme Court...
...agile debater, he shuns the rough-and-tumble of senatorial controversy. Only two formal speeches has he made, a highly orthodox Republican defense of the Republican tariff, an apologia for his Parker vote. (His friends understood that he put aside his own convictions on this case to support his President for Party reasons.) His manner of address is direct, dignified, rather dull. No dramatic sense vitalizes his voice...
...interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still the orthodox partisan when he broadcast a campaign speech in which he flayed Democrats and their tariff tactics as responsible for the Depression...
...Dominions explained that they were not asking Great Britain to adopt the double scheme of abolishing tariff barriers within the Empire and building a tariff wall around it, as has been sensationally urged for more than a year by Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere in the name of "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...
Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...