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...constituency, and on his enemies. In the past year he visited nearly every hamlet in Massachusetts making political friends. He denounced the New Deal not so much for what it did but for how it was done, demanded, "Give business a chance," "Give Massachusetts working men proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made...
...Portland Oregonian have managed to be strongly pro-Landon without being rabidly anti-Roosevelt. Despite the fact that its Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes are Alf Landon's closest advisers, the Kansas City Star has gone so far as to criticize mildly the Republican Nominee's tariff views...
Presumably his GOPatrons were no less embarrassed than Author Warburg when he wrote to Secretary of State Hull last week that his disillusionment with the Republican candidates and platform plus his gratification at the New Deal's reciprocal tariff treaties and recent moves toward currency stabilization had won back his vote. Of his Roosevelt criticism. Banker Warburg wrote: "I make no retractions." Of Republicans: "It is impossible for me to support an opposition which either will not or cannot recognize that economic nationalism lies at the root of our great difficulties...
Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, emeritus, and former Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, was elected President of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year at a meeting of the directors of the Association at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. He succeeds Learned Hand '93, of New York City...
...enacted the Hawley-Smoot tariff [in 1930], designed as nearly as possible to exclude every foreign commodity deemed in the slightest degree competitive with domestic production. Other countries, either in pursuit of a similar policy or in retaliation, increased their tariffs. The inevitable result was to reduce trade further, to create greater unsalable surpluses, to lower living standards, while privation and unemployment raged among millions...