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...voted against: Democratic Tariff bills (1932, 1934), Wartime Income Tax rates (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1932), 30-Hour Week (1933), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), NIRA (1933), AAA (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), Stock Exchange Control (1934), Silver Amendment (1954), Confirming Dr. Tugwell...
Legislative hobbies: high tariff, railroad employe pension, child labor...
...representative of a manufacturing State he has labored mightily for a place on the Senate Finance Committee which handles tariff legislation, will probably never...
5.Russell for reciprocal tariff; Luce for protective...
...Democratic nomination this year. Hence Mr. Cutting traded in his personal Progressive following for the Old Guard Republican nomination. In Congress: In the Senate Bronson Cutting promptly identified himself with the Progressives. His first windmill was the ''dirty book" provision tacked onto the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. In one of the gaudiest shows ever staged on Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight...