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...your TIME, July 23, on page 8, you have a little memorandum to the effect that Herman Blum, Textile Manufacturer of Philadelphia, "has come out for Smith on account of the tariff." Exactly the opposite is the fact. I am, individually, and as Chairman of the Republican League of Philadelphia, supporting the candidacy of Herbert Hoover...
...regard the Democratic declaration on the tariff as vote-catching hypocrisy...
...Billings Kellogg functions best when the rest of the Government is, for the most part, away from Washington. Last week, with plans nearly matured for the multilateral treaty signing which is to crown his regime, Secretary Kellogg announced definite progress on the long-tangled China problem. In Nanking, a tariff treaty was signed by the U. S., granting de facto recognition to the Nationalist regime of the Chinese Republic (see p.23). The Navy Department prepared to withdraw from Chinese waters some of the 56 U. S. warboats now there under command of Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol...
Textile Manufacturer Herman Blum of Philadelphia. Reason-the Tariff...
...Hunneman recalled that "for many years it has been the practice of your party and mine to give secretly to large contributors to campaign funds the assurance as to what policies would be put into effect." Mr. Hunneman recalled that William Howard Taft promised revision of the wool tariff in 1908, that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism, he demanded a declaration from Mr. Hoover on the present wool tariff which, according to Mr. Hunneman, strikes manufacturers as a virtual...