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...Reader Brander rest assured: TIME will explicitly report Senator Smoot's attack, if and when made, upon Senator Cutting's amendment to the Tariff Bill (to take literary censorship out of the hands of customs agents).—ED...
...Dingley Tariff restored the high protective duties of the McKinley Tariff (1890) which had been reduced by the Wilson Tariff (1893). It stood until 1909 when the Payne-Aldrich Tariff was enacted, causing the Republican defeat...
After long obscure ploddings the Senate Lobby Committee last week got back into news headlines with two facts which it had dredged up from the depths of its tariff investigation. They were...
Fact No. 1. The American Tariff League, pledged to protection, had a six-week alliance with the Republican National Committee during the 1928 campaign. It spent $40,000 to help elect Herbert Hoover, but failed to report its political expenditures. Its officers reached into Congress and hired two U. S. employes as "Washington correspondents." They were Edward Nelson Dingley, 68, white-haired tariff expert on the payroll of the Senate Finance Committee; and Clayton Moore, clerk of the House Ways & Means Committee. Expert Dingley is the son of the late Nelson Dingley Jr., for 18 years a representative from Maine...
...night," flayed the substitution of "a poisonous alkaloid" for "a nourishing food." Advertising men (through Advertising & Selling, a trade paper) discussed Good Testimonials v. Bad Testimonials, thought that Bad Testimonials were wrecking public confidence in advertising. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot (long interested in beet sugar & its tariff) said that there had not been such an orgy of buncombe since public opinion rose in its might and smote the drug traffic. He proposed that tobacco should be included in the Food & Drug Act and that food and drug advertising be subjected to the regulations prevailing with regard to labels...