Word: tariffers
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...voted for: Farm Relief, the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1928), Tax Reduction, Reapportionment, the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), the Tariff...
...believe our country has a right to enact such tariff laws as Congress thinks to be for the best interest of our people without regard to the self-interested wishes of other countries...
...Hoover's addresses of the week (see above), Vice President Charles Curtis took the stump for some of the speech-making he is not allowed while presiding over the Senate. Opening Delaware's Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
...strength of friendships made in the U. S. Foreign Service became evident last week when Tariff Commission Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, onetime career diplomat who in 22 years rose to be Ambassador to Italy, made Leland Harrison, career diplomat who lately ended 22 years service by resigning as Minister to Uruguay, chief of the Commission's international relations division...
...Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed of in 15 words. Democratic critics, of course, could pick holes in the Stimson speech. They could mock the claim that the President exhibited leadership in the tariff fight, that the new law "redeemed" the party's pledge, that the flexible provision was an economic wonderworker. The President's achievement of world-wide good-will toward the U. S. was also debatable. Even Republicans thought Mr. Stimson painted too dark a picture of President Coolidge's management...