Becker, Herbert

Thomas Becker , Mario Eichenseer , Alexander Yu. Nevsky , Ekkehard Peik , Christian Schwedes , Mikhail N. Skvortsov , Joachim von Zanthier , and Herbert Walther ... 

At the end of 1915, Representative Ebenezer J. Hill, a Republican from Connecticut, proposed a flat ad valorem rate of 30 percent, plus another TAi, per pound, or specific, rate to protect American dyes manufacturers from renewed postwar competition from the German firms. Hill wrote to Redfield arguing that while it is beautiful to maintain a theory, Democratic opposition to tariff legislation would prevent the investment necessary to make the domestic industry viable in the long run. Hearings on Hill s bill opened on January 14, 1916, before the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Representative Claude Kitchin, Democrat of North Carolina. J. F. Schoellkopf Jr., William Beckers, and Herbert Dow all testified that their... 

Ellis Hawley s work on Hoover is now classic Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an Associative State, 1921-1928, quotation on 117-18 Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order. David M. Hart discusses the informational failures in Herbert Hoover s Last Laugh The Enduring Significance of the Associative State in the United States, 420. Historian William Becker notes that Department of Commerce officials seized the opportunity to help firms build markets abroad for... 

Protection for American Dye Industry to be Urged, WDM 2 (January 12, 1916) 9 J. F. Schoellkopf, Herbert Dow, and William Beckers testimony. House Committee on Ways and Means, Hearings, To Establish the Manufacture of Dyestuffs Hearings (1916), 169, 174, 101, 199-200 ... 

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