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...ministry, the Board of Trade. To keep the Board from skyrocketing tariffs up at once beyond all reason, Free Trader Mac-Donald (still a Socialist), appointed Free Trader Runciman (Liberal) to be President of the Board of Trade. To keep his job President Runciman, cold, thin-lipped and rigidly Northumbrian, had to appease the pro-tariff majority in the House of Commons by some fairly drastic move...