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After weeks of argument and negotiation(TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.), President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree granting to the U. S. most-of the low tariff rates which U. S. trade enjoyed prior to the recent French tariff revision. The decree will be effective only until such time as a permanent commercial treaty between the two countries can be negotiated, and this depends upon the findings of the U. S. Tariff Commission's enquiry into the possibility of reducing the existing duties on French silk, textiles, perfumes and other deluxe articles. It is not thought possible that...
...their high-ceilinged meeting room. President J. Lewis Coath, melancholy-looking, thin-lipped, sat down on his dias, his subordinates at their desks facing him. In their impassiveness they resembled Indians at a pow-wow with white men. Superintendent Wm. McAndrew, on trial for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12 et seq.), looked at them with contempt. Another of his many intermittent hearings was about to commence...
...unknown young men"-Roy D. Moore & Louis H. Brush.† Banker Frank A. Vanderlip of Manhattan got himself in trouble by suspecting publicly that the Messrs. Moore & Brush obtained the Marion Star at an exorbitant price from its onetime owner, Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924 et seq.). Among the Messrs. Moore & Brush's other newspapers is the Steubenville Herald-Star- the Herald part of which was once owned by Woodrow Wilson's father & grandfather...
...Franco-U.S. tariff dispute (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) came to a definite if temporary head last week when Premier Raymond Poincare, functioning as Minister of Finance, caused a note to be written to Washington expressing France's willingness to revert to the status quo ante for U. S. imports pending the negotiation of a new commercial treaty...
...admitted, however, that he had suggested at the time the Locarno compacts were signed (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925, et seq.) that the inscription be modified, suggesting "DESTROYED BY WAR; RESTORED BY AMERICAN LOVE." His reasons for this suggestion were that the inscription should emphasize "not past differences between these peoples but their present agreements...