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...Once, when he began practicing law in Denver, he was a Republican. In 1912 he ran for Governor of Colorado on the Bull Moose ticket. Not satisfied with being beaten once, he was beaten again in 1914. Then President Wilson called him to serve on the first U. S. Tariff Commission. Incorrigibly internationalistic, he stayed there until 1928. Colorado's Democrats in 1930 sent him to the Senate where he found himself the last of the Wilsonians. A maverick, he naturally strayed with the Sons of the Wild Jackass. Once the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon asked Mr. Costigan what were...
...Department of Commerce estimated that 46% of all U. S. exports to Britain, which heretofore have been duty free, will be affected by the new British tariff...
Thus did Neville Chamberlain, Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, serve notice on the world last week that 86 years of British free trade were at an end. Effective March i, Britain will impose a 10% ad valorem tariff on all articles not already taxed except meat, wheat, raw cotton, raw wool, tea. British-caught fish and (until after the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa in July) exports from British colonies and dominions...
...hear the Chamberlain speech announcing the new tariff many more members of Parliament than there are seats crowded into the House of Commons. Normally this causes no inconvenience, but last week, with the benches jammed, Honorable Members sat in the aisles, sat on the floor, hung over the balconies. Canon William Hartley Carnegie, who generally holds opening prayers in the House to rows of empty benches and a handful of earnest Christians, found 300 early M. P.'s eager to join him that after noon. Passes to the visitors' galleries were rare as rubies. In the peers' gallery barons, viscounts...
Last autumn Dr. Butler was again talking politics?tariff reduction, unemployment insurance, revision of the Anti-trust laws. Was the presidential bee buzzing once more? Last month the Columbia Spectator nominated Dr. Butler for the White House, advised both parties to select him as their joint leader so that he might head "the kind of government so fondly hoped for by the writers of the Constitution." But, older now, Dr. Butler has grown faintly supercilious toward public office and the politicians who fill them. The idea of his seeking the Presidency he brushes aside as altogether unworthy...