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...What Mr. Hull points out is this: When farm income is high, farm imports are high, and vice versa-simply because when U. S. production is low, and prices high, it is profitable for foreign nations to send their farm products here-no matter how high the U. S. trade barriers...
...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...
Pappy Billy. Cordell Hull, a Tennessean by birth, bone, breeding and background, comes from Middle Tennessee, but the whole State takes pride in him. Nevertheless, around Star Point, where he was born, the saying is that "Cord Hull is the knowin'est man in the world-but he warn't never a match for his pappy." Pappy Billy Hull was indeed pretty much in a class by himself...
...1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey (pronounced obee) Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride, a Virginia girl named Elizabeth Riley, whose family had some Cherokee blood. Billy walked with a sidewise slouch. Even after he was rich he was "an ornery-dressin' fella." He often went to Nashville "wearin' no more than five dollars worth of clothes." Elizabeth was tall, dark, sweet-eyed. Their first home was a sheephouse; their first furniture some chestnut stumps for table and chairs; their first bed Elizabeth's riding-skirt filled with rushes...
...Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...