Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answered the French tariff thesis (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) and sounded a note of warning against what it called "dis-crimination" against U. S. goods. The note gave a detailed explanation of the U. S. tariff law. It opposed firmly the principle of reciprocity and demanded that France grant the U. S. most-favored-nation treatment under pain of sanctions authorized by Article No. 317 of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, which empowers the President to increase by 50% the duties on the goods of a nation discriminating against the U. S. The French Government took the matter under...
...President stayed away from the Executive Office in Rapid City in order to celebrate the occasion. No birthday presents were in evidence, so newsgatherers stated that the President had given his son a large check. Also it was said that John Coolidge, on becoming a major, received a property grant from his grandmother's will. In the afternoon the three Coolidges were photographed with the 75- cavalrymen who have acted as summer White House guards. In the evening the President & Mrs Coolidge sat down to dinner with John Coolidge. In the middle of the table was a big cake...
...demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant her more time for development...
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...most-favored-nation principle obliges governments not to grant to any country more favorable trade terms than those already in force in treaties with other foreign governments, or to make more favorable terms, if granted, generally applicable...