We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.
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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval H.R. 15275, an Act Imposing Temporary Duties Upon Certain...
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The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop.
I am not convinced that the method proposed is wise, that the benefits, if any, would offset the evils which would result, or that the same or larger advantages cannot be secured without resort to Government intervention.
It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…
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