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Rates. What happened, legislatively speaking, was fairly simple: The present world sugar tariff rate into the U. S. is 2.20? per lb. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential below the world rate, pays 1.76? per lb. At the demand of cane growers in Louisiana, beet growers in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, the House voted a 3? sugar rate (Cuban: 2.40?). To stifle public outcry against this increase, yet give domestic sugar producers more "protection," Senator Smoot's Finance Committee proposed a world sugar rate of 2.75? (Cuban: 2.20?). Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in the name of U. S. sugar consumers...
...Simple Graft." The Senate's sugar vote was the culmination of a year's efforts by high and low sugar lobbies. Last week Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee reported on their activities. They had, he said, spent jointly some $400,000 to influence tariff legislation. Declared he: "The whole scheme is nothing but simple graft. . . . People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer as to give their money to lobbyists...
That principle she established, at least so far as tariff duties go, when the Customs Court ruled: "The wife is now a distinct legal entity . . . upon terms of equality with her husband in respect to property, torts, contracts and civil rights. . . .[She] may acquire a domicile separate and apart from her husband by reason of his misconduct or abandonment or by his agreement either express or implied." (The McCormicks had agreed to live separately...
...southern Illinois, Mrs. McCormick found husbandmen, after lean years, interested chiefly in farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court. She spoke of a compromise tariff helpful to farmer and industrialist alike. What made Mrs. McCormick glum was the discovery of a widespread prejudice against a woman in the Senate. Added this was the covert opposition of many Illinois women to her because of what they considered her politically autocratic manner. Said she: "I hope nobody will vote for me simply "because I am a woman or vote against me solely because...
...plot involves a war between the U. S. and Switzerland caused by a tariff on milk chocolate, but the absurdities that you expect from this idea are never quite realized. Furthermore, the costumes were apparently designed by someone who realized that lengthier skirts were in order, even upon the stage, but did not know how to compensate for non-exposure. The settings exhibit various unhappy juxtapositions of color...