Word: tariffers
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...jambalaya containing all that makes for the body's pleasure, the mind's delight, the spirit's repose"), then discussed foreign trade, essential to New Orleans' busy port. Said Stevenson: "The "suicidal foreign-trade fanaticism" of the Republicans, who were responsible for the Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), would kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany -drive these countries into Communist arms. He also graphically described post-Civil War conditions in Louisiana, including malaria, pellagra, and child labor. He got a rousing cheer when he finished his speech with a tribute...
...revision of the "Bible" in 1734 introduced a new form of punishment: the levying of fines. The heaviest tariff--2 pounds, 10 shillings, was exacted for the crime of "tarrying out of town one month without leave." Among others were the usual fines for playing cards, opening doors by picklocks, use of profane speech, frequenting taverns, and entertaining persons of ill repute...
Harry Truman, who had defied one lobby by refusing to raise the tariff on Swiss watches (TIME, Aug. 25), last week defied another. Despite the protests of 13,000 independent U.S. oil producers, he approved a slash of as much as 50% in import duties on Venezuelan oil (e.g., from 10½? to 5¼? on "low gravity" oil), and abolished all import quotas...
...this the big U.S. oil companies, which own the lion's share of Venezuelan concessions, had said a fervent amen. They had warned the U.S. that unless the tariff was removed or sharply cut, Venezuela might drive the U.S. companies out. Ironically, the President found himself agreeing with the same companies his Administration had just indicted (TIME, Sept. 1) as a wicked oil cartel...
...prime postwar goal of the U.S. has been to get the rest of the free world off the backs of U.S. taxpayers and earning dollars again. Yet every time a foreign product begins to make a dent in the U.S. market, a familiar cry rises: raise tariffs. Two months ago, under heavy pressure from some U.S. watchmakers and their workers, the U.S. Tariff Commission joined the chorus. A majority reccommended that import duties on Swiss and other watches be jacked up as much...