Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. With the air of reporting a modern miracle the Financial News referred to "the bankers' complete volte face." Such a thing has not happened in a generation. It was as though President Hoover and Mr. Morgan should suddenly announce that they favored tearing down the U. S. tariff wall...
...British bankers, led by Midland Bank's famed Reginald M'Kenna, did an exactly opposite thing, came out in favor of building a tariff wall around the Empire. Up to last week, so far as anyone knew, they were Free Traders. Mr. M'Kenna is a Liberal and the Liberal party is pledged to Free Trade. Mr. M'Kenna was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Asquith's Coalition Cabinet (1915-16), a Free Trade affair. True, Mr. M'Kenna was the author of that half-hearted levy on imported products, the "M'Kenna duties," but they were carefully disguised...
Text of Manifesto. As a corollary to the building of a tariff wall around the Empire, Britain's bankers urge abolition of all trade barriers between Empire lands inside the "Great Wall." The manifesto...
...before. Can Liberal Lloyd George remain a Free Trader now that Liberal M'Kenna has climbed on the tariff bandwagon? As for Mr. MacDonald, acutely conscious was he last week that, concurrently with the bankers, the economic committee of the Trade Unions Congress adopted a resolution favoring the tariff wall. All England seemed to have become suddenly tariff-conscious...
Separatist Rinsche was more truculent. With his back to the wall and a pistol in his hand he held the rioters at bay until rescued by green-coated schutzpolitzei...