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Legislative hobbies: farm relief, a protective tariff for Agriculture...
Left alone on a shattered ticket. Senator Grundy was furious. At first he thought of quitting also. His pride was pricked. He could imagine the yelps of delight that would go up from low-tariff States if he eliminated himself. He decided to make the race, come what might...
Steyr is one of the best automobile names in Austria, but so poor is the country, so hemmed in by the tariff walls of neighbor states, that Steyr earns only minute profits, nearly all of which go to satisfy its major creditor, the Bank Boden-Credit-Anstalt. Blatantly last week the Socialist newsorgans of Vienna screeched that Boden-Credit-Anstalt "has its Capitalist foot on the neck" of Steyr and other Austrian manufacturing firms, charged that the bankers are keeping the businessmen down and starving the workers, because only in this way can they "keep money control of the Austrian...
...London Naval Conference but reparations and the U. S. tariff put wrinkles in the brow of Prime Minister Tardieu last week. Fiery French speeches, parades, and burning editorials made a hectic week. It started with pandemonium in the Chamber of Deputies. In the debate on ratifying The Hague reparations agreements ("The Young Plan") chunky Edouard Herriot, perennial Mayor of Lyons, onetime radical Prime Minister (1926) thumped the tribune and boomed...
...time, of it for the past five or six years. Fashion has shunned their stuffs. Last Spring with the return of long skirts and softer, more feminine lines, lace came back. French lacemakers rejoiced. But their hopes were dashed by the publication fortnight ago of the new U. S. tariff. Lace, embroideries and tulle, depending on quality, are saddled with a duty of from...