Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free, reserving the right to impose duties after three years on dairy products; 2) preference to Canada by imposing duties on foreign dairy products, certain fruits, unwrought copper (2d. a lb.), wheat (25. a quarter, or 6¢ a bushel); 3) continuation of the 10% ad valorem duty on foreign timber, zinc, lead, asbestos, fish (Canada had wanted the tariff on timber increased); 4) a ten-year extension of the preference on Canadian tobacco...
...Mother Country, faced by concerted Canadian, Australian and New Zealand demands that she place an embargo on Soviet wheat and timber, declared this to be "impossible," but hinted that a partial embargo might be placed on Argentine meat...
Roland H. Hartley is currently campaigning for his third term as Governor of Washington. A former timber operator, he has never been known as a champion of progressive education, or even of that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must...
...When my friends decided I was fit timber to deal with Herbert Hoover, I assented. I think now I may be big enough for that job, considering his weakness and vacillation. I hold the most powerful position in this Government, excepting that of the President. I accepted the vice-presidential nomination with much hesitancy for already we've whipped Hoover three times in Congress...
Died. Robert Dollar, 88, shipping tycoon, "Captain" through courtesy; in his San Rafael, Calif, home; of heart trouble aggravated by intestinal infection and cold. Scotland-born, he began his career as a cook's boy in a Canadian lumber camp, later became the owner of great timber stands in California. Not until 1901, when he was 57, did he turn to the sea. His first ship was the steam schooner Newsboy, a freighter to carry his timber. Shipping fascinated him and he increased his investment, going many times to the Orient to "drum up trade" with Chinese merchants...