Word: tariff
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...President Hoover is absolutely responsible . . . for the muddled condition of the Tariff Bill. . . . The President has stood by in silence, without the vision, leadership or courage to direct the Republicans in Congress to do what he advised them to do." So declared Tennessee's blatantly partisan Senator McKellar on the eve of the Senate's tariff vote...
...months-old Tariff Bill went back into the Senate again last week, where regular Republicans gambled on its life...
...Senate where Generalissimo Reed Smoot asked that they be released from their instructions, that the Senate recede from its demand for these two controverted items. He warned that the House and the White House would not relax their opposition and that, unless the Senate changed front, the Tariff Bill was as "dead as Julius Caesar...
...Returned the Tariff Bill to conference insisting on its own amendments (TIME...
...long, acrimonious booming of political big guns, the Finance Minister mildly said: "This budget is frankly framed to enable us to buy more freely from those countries which buy from us most freely. . . . I speak in no spirit of retaliation. I would much rather extend lower tariff favors to those who extend them...