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Alfred Eckes on the Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930 and its long-lasting civic mythology
_____________ “When McKinley, most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost fifty percent of their seats in the next election. When Hawt–Smooley [sic] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and Senate for sixty years. So … Continue reading
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