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Last week President Hoover started the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act on its second year with a cautious bit of rate-flexing. On recommendation of the Tariff Commission, he upped the duty on dried eggs (from China), hemp cordage (from Italy) and bicycle bells (from Germany). He lowered the duty on bentwood furniture (from Czechoslovakia), olive oil in pack- ages (from Italy) religious and commercial organs (from Canada). He agreed with the Commission that no flexing was needed for the rates on pig iron, cheese, hides and skins, olive oil in bulk or cast bells, chimes and carillons...
...That was an interesting bit of history introduced by President Hoover, namely the realization by Harding that he had been betrayed. . . . Intimations to that effect have frequently been made, but never by any one in a position to know as well as the President. . . . Of the faithlessness of which particular friend or friends did President Harding have knowl-edge-Fall, Daugherty, Forbes or Miller? If he had such knowledge, why did he not peremptorily dismiss them...
...What effective answer could I give them unless I too divested myself of every bit of clothing with which I could decently dispense and put myself to a still greater extent in harmony with the ill-clad masses? I adopted the small dhoti [two-foot-wide loin cloth] then and there, and I have worn it ever since...
...McLean, Va., a six-ft. snake bit 17-month-old Percy Crosby...
...horse show in Montebucarlo, Italy, a horse bit a large chunk out of Theodore Crema's cheek. In intense pain and indignation, Theodore Crema thrust his hand into the horse's mouth, recovered the gob of flesh, drove with it several miles to a hospital. Surgeons restored the piece to Theodore Crema's face...