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...voted for: Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929), Federal Farm Board (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Muscle Shoals (1931), War Debt Moratorium (1931), Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), Democratic Tariff Bill (1932), Revenue Bill (1932), paycut for Federal employes...
...resignations of Viscount Snowden and two of his colleagues from the British Nationalist government could hardly have been unexpected after the results of the Ottawa Conference had demonstrated the control which the Conservative party possesses and proposes to exercise over the nation's tariff policy. In a trenchant and bitter denunciation of the Conservatives, Viscount Snowden has warned Prime Minister MacDonald that he has become little more than a "cat's paw" to the high tariff group, that such a policy is likely to be fatal to British trade and to international peace, and that the crisis for which...
...speech since August, at Fogelsville where Boss Matthew Quay started the custom of starting campaigns in 1908. Since he declared Dry in his speech accepting renomination, many a Wet Pennsylvania Republican had protested the Vice President's appearance in the State. Nominee Curtis, canny politician, ducked Prohibition, talked tariff and farm relief, deluged his listeners with his favorite statistics...
Nutt's $1,500,000. Fortnight ago the Republican treasury reported an operating deficit for August. Joseph Nutt. G. O. P. treasurer, found money difficult to raise. In Pennsylvania where Joseph Grundy, famed campaign cash collector, tariff lobbyist and onetime Senator, has "retired'' politically, he encountered the leanest pickings in years. But after the Maine election Treasurer Nutt reported to the White House (and the public): "This is making my job easier. People who want to maintain the present administration in power have gone to work and the money is coming in. I'm sure...
...resourcefulness of its promotion staff is not the only factor in National Home Monthly's circulation gain. Within the past two years all the front-rank Canadian periodicals have come upon more or less better days. Prime reason is the Canadian tariff (as high as 15? a copy) on U. S. magazines, effective last year. Another reason is the depreciation of Canadian currency; after a U. S. publisher has scrambled over the tariff wall he finds himself accepting subscriptions in Canadian dollars worth U. S. 90?. Most important of all is Reason No. 3. Few U. S. publishers...