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Dear Editor A World Market? We are indebted to Gus Tyler for deflating the idea that the Smoot-Hawley tariff enacted in June 1930 was the cause of the Great Depression, if only because...
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Vol. 071 Issue 004 (March 7 1988)
Washington Notebook
