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...Tariff Commission which President Hoover expects to tell him how to flex out scientifically the injustices and inequalities of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act stood complete last week. The President revealed the names of only his first three selections: Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Thomas Walker Page, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of Wilson's Tariff Commission; John Lee Coulter, Republican, of North Carolina, chief economist and chairman of the Advisory Board of the present Commission, onetime president of North Dakota Agricultural & Mechanical College, able rural economist. Meanwhile Citizen Calvin Coolidge took...
...Tariff Warning. With a mien more solemn than even "Uncle Arthur's?," famed William Graham, President of the British Board of Trade and as such a member of the MacDonald cabinet, addressed the assembly pessimistically last week on "the general world depression and fall of commodity prices...
They warned that a tariff on raw materials and foodstuffs would certainly antagonize South America, might provoke reprisals against the enormous British interests there-for example most of Argentina's railways are British...
Scanning the signatures on last week's antitariff manifesto, observers noticed that it had been signed by directors of such paramount British banks as Lloyds, Westminster and Midland, then recalled with a start that other directors of these very same firms signed the pro-tariff "Banker's Manifesto" which created such a rumpus just two months ago (TIME, July 14). Inescapable conclusion: Britain's bankers, famed as the most clannish in the world, have found an issue which splits like an axe even their own offices...
...four-cornered by-election at Bromley, fought largely on the tariff issue last week, the Labor and Liberal candidates (free traders) lost heavily while big gains were made by Lord Rothermere's high tariff candidate, and the Conservative (medium tariff) Edward T. Campbell...