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...also on record for restricted immigration, a protective tariff and short work-hours through industrial efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Beaver-Man | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even if faced with a U. S. tariff wall, as suggested by the fact that smaller, poorer, less populous and less literate republics are increasing their export trades far more rapidly than the paternalized Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gabaldon's Going | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...rated as an authentic patron of the bold, new movement in French art and decoration. Following his tilt in the Chamber over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made necessary by the recent French tariff increases (TIME, March 12). France concedes to Italy lower duties on buttons, canned tomatoes, fruits, ventilators and women's hats, etc.; while Italy grants reductions on rabbit skins, precious stones, carpets, cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Legislative Week: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Suppose, as a test of national issues, we take the chief issues presented to Congress by the President in his last two messages. Those issues are: 1. Tax reduction. 2. Water power, as represented at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam. 3. National defense. 4. Tariff. 5. Industrial relations. 6. Prohibition. 7. Farm relief. 8. Reorganization of the Government. 9. Foreign policy...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

...tariff. Smith is a Democrat; but in these days of scrambled politics it does not follow that a Democrat--especially a Democrat from an industrial State--is necessarily a free trader. How far Smith would go in the matter of tariff reduction is an open question...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

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