If we kick dirt on our trading partners, and they gang up on us, the Evergreen State could find itself in a place of misery all its own.

President Herbert Hoover, seen at his desk in December 1930, signed legislation earlier that year authorizing the Veterans Administration. | AP Photo. By Andrew Glass 07/03/2018 12:11 AM EDT.

On this day in 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, spurning a petition to the White House from more than 1,000 economists urging him to veto the legislation.

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

Never has the United States elected a more accomplished man to the presidency than Herbert Clark Hoover, ... He had signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff. He had raised taxes in 1931.

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries. Skip to Article.

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...