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...President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery -all arguments the President has repeatedly denied...
...address. Next day at 7 a. m. the President was breakfasting aboard his Baltimore & Ohio special as it slid out of the Washington yards. At Martinsburg, W. Va. began a series of rear platform appearances that were to continue throughout the 13-hour journey. At Cumberland, Md. where are tariff-protected celanese mills. President Hoover reminded a station crowd that the first measure from the First Congress signed by President Washington was a protective tariff. Dusk had fallen when the train reached Akron where a short tariff-&-rubber speech was made...
Promises v. Policies. With what he called a "collection of dull facts," Campaigner Hoover sought to prove that Governor Roosevelt's castigations of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff were based on ignorance, misconceptions or deliberate misrepresentations. He ridiculed his opponent's suggestion of a "nest egg" for public works. "It will doubtless surprise him to learn that the eggs have not only been laid but have hatched." At length he recited his relief measures which, he said,"speak louder than any promises" Hoover boasts...
...shall vote for him," declared J. H. Beale, Royall professor of Law, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "True, business is very shaky, but a change in administrations at this time would spread economic fear over the breadth of the land. Uncertainty with regard to tariff, the currency, expenditures, and trade proposals that a change would necessarily bring to the country would turn us back into the extreme emergency from which we are now slowly emerging...
...United States leans money to Germany; this is paid to the various European countries as reparations; they in turn pay it back to the United States as their war debts. In other words no money is paid at all. Von Papen's statement is a perfectly solid fact. Unless tariffs are lowered Germany cannot sell her goods abroad., no credit can be built up, and thus no debts can be paid. Since no country will consent to lower its tariff purely for economic idealism, the moratorium must be indefinitely extended and fresh loans made...