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After three ineffective years of bellyaching about spending, the Republican. Party is making an issue of Secretary Hull's plea for a renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act which goes out of existence in June, 1940. It is too bad that the Party should want to take a stand against one of the best pieces of legislation that the present administration has adopted...
From a political standpoint, the Republicans think that they can organize the power of vested interests that are hurt by foreign competition and gain strength enough to lick Hull and his program and perhaps also the Democratic party next year. But the Republicans are going to have a hard time convincing farmers that high tariffs are good. To export their over-abundant farm products, the United States must import more, and many farmers understand this fact very clearly...
...Generally approved was the appointment of seasoned Breckinridge Long, onetime Ambassador to Italy, as Assistant Secretary of State. An international lawyer between times, Mr. Long was third Assistant Secretary under Woodrow Wilson, has been a special assistant to Secretary Hull since World War II began...
...vessel into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
Most unusual boat: a Higgins Industries, Inc. $17,000, 42-foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete...