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Conflict with the Senate again marred the peace of President Hoover's week. Well-intentioned, he warned the Congress against legislation which, if passed, he knew would bloat the budget, necessitate tax increases. The same set of Senators who had flayed him for his silence on the tariff rose up to denounce him for speaking out against extravagance. President Hoover shifted his ground under this attack, appealed to the country at large to support economy. ¶ President Hoover selected John North Willys, onetime motorman, as U. S. Ambassador to Poland, to succeed the late Alexander Pollock Moore. ¶ With...
...protracted discussion of the Tariff, with its consequent delay to other important legislation. He spoke darkly of thousands of U. S. employes on public works who would have to be laid off unless Congress voted them money soon, then warned Congress not to spend more money than the budget authorized...
...Minseito, his party, gained 101 new seats (giving them 273 of the 466 parliamentary seats) in the most impressive vote of confidence given any Japanese Government in a generation. Bristle-haired Prime Minister "Shishi" who had led his campaign himself on a platform of government economy, balancing the budget without foreign loans, foreign conciliation, restoration of the gold standard, was delighted. Delighted too, were foreign observers at the London Naval Conference. It was felt that with the Minseito party so firmly re-established in power, the Japanese naval delegates could make concessions in their stubborn demands, need not fear popular...
Conservative whips, anxious to plot their party strategy for the ensuing parliamentary term, have threatened, blustered, begged the complacent Labor Government for some hint of the make-up of the soon-to-be-announced Budget. Did the Labor Party intend to retain the old protective duties on sugar, silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...have accomplished my duty to the end. We could not fight the opposition on each and every article of the budget and deliver up the country to demagogery. There was an abscess, and it had to be punctured...