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...free importation of Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar imports from the Pacific Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...hostesses shows a charming disregard of what experience has taught about the argumentative powers of women. The Harvard half, or fraction, of the impending debate has proved its searage, if nothing more, by putting itself in the place where there is a possibility, at least, of hearing the ladies protest too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIXED DOUBLES | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

Under the leadership of men like Senator Borah the American people have gradually been forced to the realization that a great deal of money is being spent every year in attempting to infuse them with a definite set of ideas subconsciously through various methods. The protest has not come because of any direct activity of this nature but due to the fact that a great deal of it has been carried on underground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BUSINESS ETHICS | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

...whether that is because no one loves a Freshman anyway, or merely because no one wastes much thought on Freshmen, but I believe so strongly that a grave mistake will be made if the Freshmen are not included in the House organizations that I cannot refrain from registering my protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Plans for the House | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

...Shields, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Des Moines University, who has fired his entire faculty for modernistic views. This is the second purging of sin from the Baptist institution, from which all evolutionists and geologists were expelled two years ago. The students have responded with eggs, a protest older than Genesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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