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...complete his new Tariff Commission President Hoover appointed Lincoln Dixon, 70, of Indiana as its third Democrat. Mr. Dixon, like two other commissioners, was a member of the old commission that Congress put out of business. ¶Into the White House went Dwight Whitney Morrow with his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico tucked in his pocket. President Hoover asked him to stay to luncheon, talked about Mexican affairs. Not until his resignation was accepted did Republican Senatorial Nominee Morrow purpose to begin his New Jersey campaign...
Secretary Stimson declared President Hoover had made 35 campaign pledges, had fulfilled 34 of them.? He cited major accomplishments: i) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act; 2) Federal Farm Board; 3) a I% income tax reduction (for 1929 only) ; 4) increased public construction; 5) increased merchant marine; 6) cruiser limitation under the London Naval Treaty; 7) improved Latin-American relations...
...heavy income taxes are sapping business initiative already weakened by too much regard for tradition", he continued, "and under these conditions banking and business circles are noticeably swinging to the advocacy of a tariff as a possible means of stimulating British production. Even among the trade unions this point of view is beginning to gain adherents. Therefore, if the Conservative party should be returned to power at a general election at any time within the next two years it is quite possible that the tariff experiment will be tried in spite of the Britishers traditional opposition to taxes on imported...
...Scanning the hefty new Canadian schedules, observers noted that Canada continues to have three kinds of tariffs: first and lowest, those collected on goods enjoying "British Preferential" tariff (i. e. imports from nearly all other parts of the Empire); second, "Intermediate Tariff" on imports from countries with which Canada has reciprocally favorable trade treaties, such as Czechoslovakia; third, "General Tariff," the highest, collected on imports from "other countries" such...
Example from the new tariff schedule...