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...physician he brings his medical knowledge and experience to bear on legislative questions arising in the World War Veterans' Legislation and Pensions Committees of which he is a diligent member. He voted for: Tax Reduction (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932). He voted against: Farm Relief (1928), Bonus 50% Loan (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1931). He votes Dry, drinks Dry. Legislative, hobbies: Pensions for widows & orphans of War veterans; extension of the Ohio River barge system 80 mi. beyond Pittsburgh. He once proposed that veterans...
...April 13 Alfred Emanuel Smith spoke at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington. On April 18 Governor Roosevelt addressed Democrats at St. Paul. Mr. Smith and Governor Roosevelt are poles apart on some issues but on the Republican tariff their stand is apparently identical...
...indirectly. Directly- Directly, American American foreign trade Foreign trade has has been steadily dwin- been steadily dwindling. dling. . . . Indirectly Indirectly, the high -the high schedules schedules of the Hawley- of the Hawley-Smoot bill Smoot bill caused caused European European nations to nations to raise their raise their own tariff own tariff walls walls, and these walls not only against us but were raised not only against each other. against us but against each other...
Definitely a politician?a bargainer and adjuster?Chancellor Chamberlain now looks forward to the Imperial Conference at Ottawa next summer as his chief hope for Empire recovery. His object will be to exclude non-Empire goods by an Empire tariff wall around the Mother Country and Dominions, this with the avowed plan of later bargaining with other high-tariff countries...
Still confident, last week Perfect Circle was opening a plant in Toronto to avoid the 27½% tariff on piston rings...