Press Conference
02/17/1938
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An excise tax of this amount would yield approximately $100,000,000 per annum to the Treasury of the United States.
I recommend to the Congress the enactment of an excise tax at the rate of not less than .75 cent per pound of sugar, raw value.
He will always be venerated as an unselfish statesman whose career was conspicuously marked by unswerving courage, industry and faith.
Their opportunity for constructive service is as great today as when Grover Cleveland named the first Interstate Commerce Commission in the ...