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Died. James William Collier, U. S. Tariff Commissioner, twelve times U. S. Representative from Mississippi's 8th District, chairman last year of the House's potent Ways & Means Committee; of heart disease; on his 61st birthday, in Washington...
What really overthrew Machado, killed the officers of the Plaza Hotel, and pitched Cuba into an anarchy from which, it appears, only a brutal rule can pull her, was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1929. The very gentle ex-Senator Smoot of Utah, who alternates his campaign for literary purity with an effective defense of Western and Southern United States sugar concerns, was able in this piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which...
...General Johnson's desk last week lay a brand new order which, if & when signed by the President, would bring into play the tariff clause of the National Recovery Act to exclude cheap foreign imports threatening NRA manufacturers...
More interesting than Canada's banking problems to many a U.S. businessman is her recovery from Depression. With no New Deal to titillate prices, only intra-Empire tariff preferences to promote business, Canada since last February has staged an economic comeback almost equal to that of the U. S. Her bank clearings are 27% ahead of last year, her car-loadings up 7%, her wholesale price index stands at 70.5 as compared to 66.6 a year ago and 63.6 in February. Drought has put her wheat up to 80? (from a low of 50?). Her busy gold mines...
...exported to the U.S. in any year during the past generation. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would support their plea for a quota of not less than 2,200,000 short tons. Ever since the U.S. helped Cuba win independence from Spain, Cuban sugar has enjoyed a U.S. tariff preference of 20%. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would use his executive power to raise this preferential to 50%. In Washington the President, careful not to antagonize U.S. sugar interests, was publicly mum about his Cuban sugar policy last week, but at least one member of the new Cuban Cabinet seemed...