Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cordell Hull thinks he can explain this to Congress and the public this year. Many politicos are less certain, and the Republican high command is sure Mr. Hull will be rolled over a barrel of imported Argentine beef. It was the farm bloc who wrote the Emergency Tariff of 1921, the Fordney-McCumber tariff boost of 1922, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Republicans may again become "friends of the farmer." Last week Mr. Hull said he welcomed an investigation, if it were not made by chums of the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
...that Germany still had tied up throughout the world, 400 to 500 ships, with some 1,800,000 tons of needed car goes, which were running up charges at ?330,000 per month for harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi ship after another has left sanctuary and tried running the Allied blockade to get home. Rule No. 1 of Germany's sea war being to diminish Allied tonnage, Rule No. 1 for homing German ships is to scuttle rather than be seized. Last...