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...Log-Roller on Tariff. Senator Barkley log-rolled a tariff on coal into the new Tax bill (TIME, May 30). Nevertheless as party keynoter he excoriated what he called the Hoover-Grundy Tariff Act, forced through by a "congregation of harpies" and signed by the President "with an apology...
...propose," shouted Senator Barkley, "to reduce the exorbitant and indefensible rates ... to inaugurate friendly international trade conferences. . . . The Democratic Party does not advocate free trade. [We] wrote, sponsored and secured the passage of a measure which ought to lift tariff-making above the sordid processes of log-rollers and back-scratchers and place it upon the high plane of scientific knowledge. ... But Mr. Hoover vetoed the measure...
Died. William Alfred Moore, 13, able assistant editor & circulation manager of the mimeographed Chitina, Alaska Weekly Herald (TIME, May 25, 1931); by drowning, when he slipped from a log into the Copper River at Chitina...
...interest in Blount's glass works, an interest in Blount's wife. He introduces her to Judith Webster. Washington's star socialite, whose husband is a power in the House of Representatives. Blount soon begins to find success in politics as simple as rolling a log. Before he knows it he is a Senator...
Having voted on the income tax sections of its billion-dollar revenue bill (TIME, May 30), the Senate last week continued its long wrangle over inserting tariff provisions. Oil and coal duties had been adopted. Log-rolling logic and gentlemen's agreements now necessitated doing something for lumber and copper. Nebraska's Norris tried to break in with a revival of the Export Debenture to benefit farm products, insisted that some form of farm aid must go into the bill if tariff features were being added. He was brushed aside by a vote of 46-10-23. Lumber...