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According to section 315-A of the Fordney -McCumber Tariff Law (.passed in 1922), the President is empowered to alter the tariff rates on any commodity either up or down, not to exceed 50% of the statute tariff. The action may be made by proclamation after an investigation of the costs of production in the U. S. and in the country which is our principal competitor in a given commodity. Within the limits set, the President is authorized to set new tariff rates sufficient to offset the difference in cost of production between the two countries. This...
...electoral bill, recently introduced into the Senate (TIME, Dec. 17, et seq.), was passed by 141 votes; the entire Left section of the Senators abstaining because it was certain that the next Government would alter the law. Premier Poincare, champion of the bill, who is himself a Senator, taunted the Left by saying that they ought to have the courage of their convictions and vote against the bill, even if its consequences were to turn the Government out of office...
...Crane as the most reliable attack men, with Reid, Sullivan; Salter, and Watson for probable defense stars. The appearance this week of I. G. Black '24, Samson Merriam '25, J. L. Rudofsky '24, R. C. Morrison '26, D. H. Stevens '24, and T. W. Hoag '25 is expected to alter considerably the tentative line...
...Keen starts in 1915 with the idea of a "superstate" equipped with an executive council (the members of which should be chosen on a population basis) and full power to alter boundaries and settle disputes, an international World Court (espoused by the late U. S. President Harding in 1923), an international body of laws and an international army to enforce those laws. He advocates an international currency. The author traces the various schemes, from the prospectuses of the British League of Nations Society and the American League to Enforce Peace, to their fruition in the actual League of Nations...
...Opposition to any attempt to alter the Volstead Act for a greater alcoholic content in non-intoxicating beverages...