Word: tariffers
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...Congress was in open revolt: not only Republicans, not only conservative Democrats, but also many of the men on whom Franklin Roosevelt once counted to write his political philosophy into the law of the land. Congress last week wrote restrictions into the President's bill for wartime tariff and immigration powers, started talk of economy drives and payroll investigations, got ready to wheel up the heavy artillery against some of his administrators...
...though hinging upon our future foreign policy ... is the progressives against the reactionaries all over again. ... If you are a reactionary at home, you are most likely to be an isolationist abroad. ... If you distrust the plain people in this country, you will certainly distrust them in Russia. High-tariff protectionism, hatred of social reforms, appeasement, isolationism, advocacy of a strictly military war and fear of a people's peace all go together in one package...
...bigger and better fall. Many Senators and Representatives have arrogantly read a personal indorsement of themselves into the recent election results. Showing the reaction of spoiled children, they have chosen to buck the President on the first important measure since November elections--the War Powers Bill, concerning tariff and immigration statutes...
...Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade...
...value of Britain's services by: 1) fighting the war virtually alone for a year and a half; 2) continuing to supply men & materials now. And in the final peace settlement the U.S. and Britain are bound to break down the imperial preferences and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff...