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...most interesting case is that of Senator McKellar. This ardent champion of making the foreigner pay regardless of the consequences is a representative of the State of Tennessee. According to the World Almanac, Tennessee is primarily an agricultural state producing lumber, tobacco, cotton, corn and cattle. In 1930 it appears that of the total American production of tobacco 40% was exported, of cotton nearly 45%, of lard about 29%. It is plain, then, that the prosperity of Tennessee is intimately dependent upon a flourishing foreign trade and upon a recovery of world prices...
...Stanley Melbourne ("Handsomest") Bruce threw an Australian ultimatum in the form of a 5,500-word handout to the Press. Mentioning Argentina, Russia and Denmark by name, fighting Mr. Bruce demanded that the Mother Country cut down her imports of Argentine meat, Danish dairy products and Russian wheat and lumber either by Dipping her tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course that Australia, if generously...
...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
...speaking for a Wet candidate, recommended the submission of a resolution repealing the 18th Amendment. Like Senator Borah, he denounced the theory that constitutional Prohibition could be kept in some States and not in others. The Republican plank on this question he called "a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap-lumber," adding...
...predicted 50,000 more were on the march to Washington. Seven thousand of them paraded one evening in quiet order up Pennsylvania Avenue. The discipline at "Bonus City" continued good, despite the fears of alarmed Washingtonians who helped to spread unfounded Red scares. Crude shelters were built from old lumber, packing boxes and scrap tin, and thatched with old straw. Several hundred secondhand Army tents were provided. Company streets were laid out. Latrines were dug. Regular formations were held daily. Campers were organized for field sports to keep them out of mischief. Newcomers were required to register after proving that...