Word: tariffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton textile industry two years ago noted with alarm that Japanese shipments of cotton textiles had grown from 1,115,000 square yards in 1933 to 155,000,000 in 1937. With a U. S. trade pact or a discriminating tariff impossible to arrange, Claudius Temple Murchison, president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, packed off to Japan with a delegation of businessmen. Somewhat to his own surprise he negotiated a private pact limiting imports from Japan to 255,000,000 yards for 1937 and 1938 (TIME, March 8, 1937). Last week, declaring the pact a great success, Dr. Murchison signed...
...seemed like a very small potato indeed in a very big box. His training for the job consisted of clerking in Congress, working in President Wilson's Post Office Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt...
LIMA, Peru--Mexico tonight proposed that the eight Pan-American Conference bar the use of force in the collection of international debts, while Argentina accepted in principle a United States project which would bind all 21 American Republics to do everything possible to lower their tariff barriers...
...Aitken ran was Ashton-Under-Lyne, a Liberal stronghold. The lively little financier had brought with him from Canada something besides bonds, a passionate but practical belief in Empire. To keep the British Empire whole and strong he hit upon "Empire Free Trade"-which means the building of a tariff wall around the Empire and the tearing down of all tariffs within...
Next year Baldwin signed the Ottawa agreements, which were the first Empire-wide tariff plan. And last week even the Express chimed in with modified praise for the U. S.-Great Britain-Canada trade pact which, in effect, cuts the U. S. in on any E. F. T. policy that may eventually be adopted...