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...through the shoulders, said he had raised $750,000 for the Coolidge campaign in 1924, had helped to raise "almost a million" for the Hoover campaign of 1928. This year he had spent $20,000 out of his own pocket in seeing that Pennsylvania industries got back, in higher tariff rates, these political contributions...
Without attempting to enter into what has been called the explosive zone of fire in connection with tariff policies. It is quite evident that some good patriots are fearful lest the proposed European economic union on the one hand and the increasing industrialization of the United States with resulting protective tariffs on the other, will bring about obstructions to the flow of goods between Europe and this country. To this fear, the reply is that, during the post-war decade, a period marked by unusual activity in readjustments of this sort throughout the world, the foreign commerce of nearly every...
True, the deliberations of the International Economic Conference at Geneva in 1927 were focused largely upon this question of trade barriers and numerous obstacles (including a good many quite apart from tariff levels) were revealed. But one wonders sometimes whether their real significance is not at times exaggerated, whether the amazing adjustability or fluidity of modern commerce does not in large part circumvent such barriers within a short time after their establishment...
...herself and extends to her colonies, dependencies and other outlying provinces. The trade of these lands is European since the economic wealth of the regions in question and its distribution are controlled from that continent. We import essential raw materials for our industries from these European dependencies mostly without tariff charges...
...Adopted (42 to 34) the export debenture plan as an amendment to the tariff bill...