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...week's conferences in Mr. Roosevelt's Manhattan home began with French Ambassador Paul Claudel on War Debts, with Canadian Minister William Herridge on tariff reciprocity. After an overnight stop at his Hyde Park home, Mr. Roosevelt motored on to Albany to attend the legislative correspondents' annual dinner and political burlesque. He laughed uproariously when a "Roosevelt" asked a "Smith": "Well, Al, what do you think my administration will need most?" And was told, "a four-leaf clover, Frank...
Secretary of State. Cordell Hull, 61, was picked because he is the ablest tariff man in his party and President Roosevelt proposes to start world trade again by international tariff agreements. Rated high for quiet good sense and personal integrity, Senator Hull's appointment produced the loudest popular applause. Abed with a bad cold in his two-room apartment in Washington's fashionable Carlton Hotel, the new Secretary of State said: "I hope I have the capacity to measure up to the responsibilities." After March 4 he will take a larger suite at the Carlton...
...then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back and listened, with what seemed to be complete agreement, to the expression of conservative business opinion...
...taxation he opposes a Federal sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying...
President-elect Roosevelt has indicated that he might swap debt concessions to Britain for British tariff concessions to the U. S. On the contrary Chancellor Chamberlain argued that the U. S., in addition to forgiving Britain much of her debt, should also lower the U. S. tariff wall which he holds in part responsible for Depression. "A system under which it has been possible for the United States to reach its present position cannot be perfect," said Mr. Chamberlain, referring directly to the U. S. protective tariff system. "However, it is not for me to tell the United States what...