may 27, 1921 - Signs Emergency Tariff Act (42 Stat 9) to protect American farmers. Preceded in 1913 by the Underwood-Simmons Tariff (which lowered tariffs), and followed in 1922 by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff which raised them
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may 27, 1921
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~ 105 years ago