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...Britain's third best customer and the U. S.'s second best for motor vehicles. Australians are also avid consumers of U. S. typewriters. They expect Premier Lyons to rub these facts into Washington's New Dealers and convince President Roosevelt that he should lower the U. S. tariff to favor Australia's wool, wine and wood...
Married. Grace H. Roper, fourth of U. S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper's seven children, 1917 Vassar graduate, British trade expert for the U. S. Tariff Commission; and Frank Bohn. 57, free-lance journalist specializing in international relations; in Washington...
Catalyst in the New Deal's complex rehabilitation formula was the Jones-Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices...
Cleveland was defeated by Harrison. The McKinley tariff was passed and Father Lash's lace importing business was ruined. That finished young Lash's art career...
Other suggestions advanced were the establishment of periodical lectures in Economics A by recognized authorities on the special fields covered (Professor Taussig on the tariff) at approximately weekly intervals, and a plan to put the lecturer on the spot by subjecting him to a cross examination at the end of the hour, ostensibly to give the cleverest students a chance to trip...