Word: tariffers
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...treaty, a year in the making, ended a ten-year squabble which at times threatened to lose its diplomatic politeness. The U. S. fixed-rate tariff made concessions to French goods impossible. Consequently France declined to give U. S. goods the benefit of her minimum tariffs. The French reduced their quotas on U. S. goods when Depression hit harder. U. S. dollar devaluation made matters worse. Last year France was the fourth largest U. S. market, whereas the U. S. was only the twelfth largest market for France. But even in 1910 U. S. exports to France were higher than...
...should not blame the Councilmen of Government for setting up their booth on the lawn outside University Hall. This is certainly the time and the country for action by the flying wedge, and one man's pressure is as good as another's. We have groups to raise the tariffs, groups to lower the tariff, groups to make us eat sugar, and groups to make us drink less alcohol. We have groups to remove the Indians from Oklahoma and groups to give New York back to the Indians. And now comes the most courageous of them all: the Council...
First, however, Kentucky's Barkley and Texas' Connally prepared to fight fire with fire by tacking on amendments directing the Tariff Commission to supply names of big industrial corporations which had benefited by the tariff, with estimates of the amounts which that form of Government subsidy had put into their pockets. Also, Democrats pounced on Republican Vandenberg's Presidential aspirations, denounced the political motive of his inquiry...
...farm problem, he has few interests except the Republican Party and his own ancestry, which he traces back through 300 years of pioneer U. S. farmers. So regular a Republican is the Iowa Senator that, whereas most agricultural leaders blame much of the farmer's woe on tariff walls, he declares himself "just like William McKinley" on that issue...
...Arthur E. Morgan, Chairman of the TVA, and Wendell L. Wilkie, President of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation at the same round table on government and industry; the expose of the New England hysteria on the question of Japanese imports by Robert L. O'Brien, Chairman of the Tariff Commission, at the table on foreign trade; the opinions of Mariner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board at the banking table were only a few of the more outstanding evidences of the accuracy and sincerity of the discussions. In consideration of the men in government and business who were...