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...Board of Trade on the front page for the first time in months, Chicago wheat soared 4¢ per bu. in one day to the magic figure $1. Dollar wheat has appeared several times since the New Deal but, because U. S. markets are insulated by a high tariff against outside factors, world prices lagged far behind. Winnipeg prices have also been artificially high, due to the stabilization efforts of the Canadian Grain Board. Lacking the stability provided by huge storage facilities. Buenos Aires is erratic. From its year's low Argentine wheat has lately zoomed 25?...
...funniest parts of The Politician are consequently the quotations from the politicians themselves: A speech on the protective tariff, delivered by onetime (1925-31) Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia, in which the tariff is pictured as touching hillsides, causing the waters of commercial prosperity to flow, illuminating the valleys, making furnace flames to kiss mountain tops, evoking sweet music from factories, preserving the American home, the schoolhouse and the dignity of labor, turns out in cold type to be so wild a collection of exaggerations and banalities as to make the broadest parody an understatement...
...Aldrich Library of Finance, containing chiefly the material assembled by the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, is intended as a reading room in banking, finance, and the tariff. In it will be found the classics in these fields, together with the best writings of the recent past relating to these subjects. Homesick students may be comforted at learning that "It is hoped that this room may be used as a pleasant retreat by those who desire to read quietly and comfortably in the fields of banking, financial, and tariff history...
...still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator Harrison asking him during the autumn to see if anything could be done about reviving NRA; appointed the new Social Security and Labor Relations Boards...
...capped by a reversal of French economic foreign policy which has sought of recent years to protect home industry by rigid quotas limiting imports. Since other nations have retaliated in kind against French exports, Premier Laval decreed a general procedure of scrapping quotas and replacing them with reciprocal tariff agreements, hoping to induce other nations by friendly negotiation to admit more French wares as France admits more foreign goods...