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...Washington, Senator William Edgar Borah, immediately challenging the Administration's much-vaunted flexibility clause in the new bill (TIME, June 23), obtained passage by the Senate of a resolution calling upon the Tariff Commission to investigate at once the rates on shoes, furniture, cement and farm implements. In effect this resolution said: "If the new tariff is flexible, let's see you flex it." The old Commission, which must be reorganized within 90 days by order of the new law, was thus confronted with a big eleventh-hour...
...Cement (cwt.) Free...
...Master; "it is even said that soldiers of the Red Army stand as guards of honor before his paintings in the Soviet museums." Yet many a purchaser has been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...
...Cement. House rate: 8? per cwt. Senate rate: 6? per cwt. The House voted (221-to-167) for the low Senate figure...
Significance. The conference report, thus completed by the House, went back to the Senate 'for final approval. No longer in controversy were the rates on silver, cement, lumber, shingles, logs and sugar. Chief remaining issues before the measure can be sent to President Hoover for approval: Export Debenture and Flexibility...