Word: taussig
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Professor Taussig's testimony before the Senate special committee which opened its investigation of the Tariff Commission on Tuesday contains this statement: "The endeavor seems to have been to make the tariff commission not an organization for unbiased inquiry on facts, but one for preparing such recommendations as are known in advance to be acceptable to the party and the Administration in power...
...more serious and sweeping condemnation of the Republican administration's commission policy could have been made Professor Taussig was the first chairman of the Tariff Commission which was expressly organized in 1916 as an advisory body to Congress to "Study all questions relating to the importation of merchandise and to provide data upon which the tariff can be formed with reference to the real economic needs of the country rather than in obedience to sectional, or class, or political pressure...
...chiefly because of its non-partisanship. With the advent of the Republican Administration, however the composition of the commission was altered to suit the high tariff requirements set forth in the Republican platforms of 1920 and 1924. It has lost not only its unbiased character, but, according to Professor Taussig, something of its efficiency as well...
...began. Senator Capper (Republican) declared outright that it must be modified to benefit the farmer. Senator Wheeler, Representative Rainey, ex-Senator Walsh of Massachusetts (Democrats) joined the fray for lower tariffs. And in its midst complaints against the tariff law per se were made by others. Dr. F. W. Taussig of Harvard, the first Chairman of the Tariff Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present to use it as an instrument for supporting and carrying out a given...
...CRIMSON extends its congratulations to Professor Taussig '79 upon his election as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. This signal honor which transcends the narrow bounds of countries and continents cannot add to a reputation already established internationally, for Professor Taussig's contributions to the science of economics have already won him recognition as a profound scholar and high authority. This latest honor is the more noteworthy since of the nine Americans now holding Corresponding Fellowships of the British Academy, five are Harvard men and four of those are members of the faculty...