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One of the most enormous acts of isolationism in U.S. history was committed in June 1930: passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Its purpose was to give U.S. producers a noncompetitive monopoly of the U.S. market, regardless of the consequences abroad. It was the brain-child of Utah'...
Last February, in St. Petersburg, Fla., died Apostle Reed Smoot, still isolationist, still bitter at Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements, which partially nullified the still-existing Smoot-Hawley Act. And last week, in Salem, Ore., death came to Willis Hawley, 77, the Oregon axman who had helped chop...
Drive-In is the invention* of Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr., a vigorous fellow of 41 who thinks the U.S. was much happier in the days when most people couldn't read. His concern, Park-In Theatres, Inc., headed by Cousin Warren Willis Smith, is collecting 5% of all the...
*He changed his name from Willis to Wyllis to please his wife's numerological inclinations.
Beaten in all but two of their matches, the Crimson netmen were crushed by Dartmouth Saturday afternoon at the Divinity School Courts. Only survivors for the home forces were Howie Ezell, who beat Charlie Willis 6-0, 3-6, 8-6, and the doubles team of Homer Peabody and Sonny...