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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio

… worldwide depression really was prolonged and brought on by a thing called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, which thought that through a kind of general protectionism we could help ourselves, and …

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Interview With Foreign Journalists

… period of time than need be because our country turned to a thing called the Smoot-Hawley tariff. And I think that was a great factor in our decline. So, no, I think that all the signs -- …

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Interview With Foreign Television Journalists

… the fires of that Depression was protectionism throughout the world and our own Smoot-Hawley tariff bill which was passed at the beginning of that Great Depression. That is not the way to …

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Interview With Lou Cannon, Dave Hoffman, and Lynn Downie of the Washington Post

… Depression, I think the Great Depression was extended and carried on and worsened because of a tariff situation on our part, called Smoot-Hawley, that reacted unfavorably against us. It was …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the "Choosing a Future'' Conference in Chicago, Illinois

… Depression -- graduating in 1932 -- I, looking back, have some idea of what the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill did to the Depression worldwide. And I think that free trade is the best answer. But …

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