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...convinced that the aforesaid regulation will impair that international good will and understanding which has been built up among the students of the various nations in the American institutions of higher learning. We feel deeply alarmed over the erection of a high tariff wall against student intercourse. The inevitable consequence of this regulation would be to create much unfavorable criticism in the homelands of these students who have come to our universities with the knowledge that America's tradition is that of equal opportunity...
Vice President Curtis was conducting the same sort of smalltown, one-ring-circus tour as four years ago. As in 1928 he floored his audiences with oratorical extravagances, staggered them with tariff statistics, lost his temper when heckled. He had one standard speech for delivery everywhere. Excerpt: "After every great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead...
...Buckingham Palace. Long Island plain folk last week followed the young couple's entourage, rubbed elbows with them as often as possible, listened to Candidate Whitney declare the campaign issues were too complex to be discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform as "swell," recommends downward tariff revision. Congressional investigation of the B. E. F.'s ejection from Washington, the establishment of local boards of ''patriotic citizens'' throughout the nation to pass on cases of needy veterans for whom the full Bonus would be cashed instanter. Observers sensed that his last proposal was a trial balloon sent...
...things Lord Snowden actually did were1) to denounce the Ottawa Conference and all its tariff works "which will lead to the disruption of the Empire and' [are] fraught with great danger to our international relations"; 2) to declare with the immense financial authority of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer that Great Britain now faces an economic crisis more disastrous than last year (when the pound slipped off gold); 3) to resign as Lord Privy Seal, denouncing Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald as a traitor to the traditional Labor Party tenet of Free Trade...
...favorite role of "Empire Salesman," H. R. H. then opened at Copenhagen the largest British fair ever held among Danes. From London Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, tireless champion of a tariff wall around the Empire, sniped at the Empire Salesman, charged flatly that his Danish trip is "ill advised...