Word: tariff
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...gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export market; 7) necessitate further tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations; 9) put U. S. livestock men at a disadvantage by raising U. S. feed prices; 10) increase U. S. taxes. President Hoover summed up: ". . . [its] theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the farmer; it would create profiteering; it contains elements which would bring American...
...import tariff" and "tariff" are synonymous. Export tariffs are prohibited by the Constitution...
...Nance Garner, new minority leader of the House, last week discovered a leak, let out a warning shout. His face red with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain...
...Allies could take their choice, and in either case they would get 15 billion dollars over 37 years. The first offer (which so enraged the French and British that they almost for got there was a second) provided that if Germany were granted "access to colonial raw material," preferential tariff treatment from the Allies, and "economic communi cation with the detached province of East Prussia, then the Fatherland would pledge unconditional payment of the 15 billion dollars. The second offer provided for pay ment of the same amount but was conditional and so drawn as to provide even more protection...
Like Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and many another European state, France has long had a system of restricting U. S. film imports. The reason is similar to that which caused Congress to put a tariff on French gowns and hats. Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers. As yet, however, Congress has not decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from...