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Among the news referring to Chile, my country, there was a sympathetic reference to our 'protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests. Allow me to thank you for this, especially because I know that you are not fishing, but saying this because you broad-mindedly and openly mean...
Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach, smartly dressed, ruddy face, sour externally, pleasant internally, is a banking, realty and lumber tycoon of Atlantic City, N. J. A fine mixer and fixer, he is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends. Much of the practical brains of the Ways & Means Committee (taxes, tariff) repose within his iron-grey head...
...most striking gesture of labor was made outside the A. F. of L. convention. Also in New Orleans met delegates of newly-formed Labor Association, the American Wage-Earners protective conference representing 17 international unions with 250,000 members. The venerable bugaboo of tariff was their concern. They contended that present tariff rates were flooding the country with imported merchandise, that thousands of U. S. laborers were therefore out of work. This claim naturally hinged on statistics. There was a fat volume of them, gathered quietly in Manhattan during the past six months. Figures showing the increase of imported wares...
Argentina will not be officially represented at the Conference in Washington. The new Argentine President and "boss politician" intimated recently (TIME, Oct. 22) that he was vexed by reports that President Calvin Coolidge had made up his mind to raise the tariff on corn and flaxseed. Vexed anew, last week, was President Irigoyen when the Independent El Diario of Buenos Aires issued a presumptuous statement that it expects the government to refuse to sign the Kellogg Peace Pact on the grounds that Argentina is "a traditionally peaceful country...
...last message from President Coolidge to the Congress was in course of preparation. Topics to be touched on were easily foreseen-the Kellogg Treaty, the Cruiser Bill, Farm Relief, Tariff, Economy, Prosperity, etc. etc. Senator McNary of Oregon had audience at the White House and announced that he was framing an agricultural measure which would, this time, omit features that have so vexed the President and include features which the President approves. Approved features, long known in a general way, were hinted at in a speech last week by President Coolidge to the National Grange as they will probably...