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...1820s, protectionism became a flaming national issue, with Henry Clay advocating a tariff-walled "American System" and Daniel Webster speaking for freer trade. The debate produced some highly emotive rhetoric. New Jersey's Democratic Representative George Holcombe warned in a House speech that without protective tariffs the nation would see "your agriculture languishing, commerce declining, manufactures perishing, your-but, sir, I cannot, will not finish the picture. It is too utterly repulsive...
...front row, reserved for the seven members of Fillmore's Cabinet and their wives. The Cabinet was off at the Russian ministry having dinner and soaking up exotic wines and vodka. Jenny Lind was singing Hail, Columbia when they swayed down the aisle and took their seats. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, Secretary of State, stood up drunkenly and sang along with her, while his wife tugged furiously at his long black tails...
...Stokowski decides to conduct one of the orchestra's 26 projected concerts, the event will take place August 10 in the acoustically perfect ball court of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Yucatan. Webster related yesterday that Stokowski, after testing the acoustics of the rectangular ball court many years ago, said: "I hope I never die before I can conduct here." A Mexican committee is inviting Stokowski to conduct...
...Webster said that the HRO has invited President Kennedy to attend its concert in Mexico City July 1. The President will be on a state visit to Mexico at that time. "Nothing's definite yet," remarked Webster, "but I think we've got enough strings so that we've got a chance...
Culturally valuable contact with the Mexican people is one of the main objects of the tour, Webster maintained. Over half the concerts will feature Mexican soloists or conductors in cooperation with the Harvard-Radcliffe group. There will also be two joint concerts with Mexican orchestras...