Mr. Grundy "Goes Along"

Bright with confidence was the round face of Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker and highest of high tariff men (TIME, Feb. 18) as he sauntered last week into the White House offices to tell President Hoover why the tariff should be broadly and generously revised. Dark with dismay was that same face 40 minutes later when Mr. Grundy emerged from his conference. President Hoover had disgruntled potent Mr. Grundy by saying NO.

Mr. Grundy's lips were sealed as if to part them would loose only sobs of heartbreak, but Mr. Grundy's friends predicted that he would "go along" with the Hoover Administration on limited tariff revision. For after all, some tariff boosting is better than none at all.

President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, Mr. Grundy raised many a useful dollar for the G.O.P. on the expectation that supreme tariff protection would be given Pennsylvania manufactures, especially textiles and cement. So potent has Mr. Grundy been tariff-tailoring that when Utah's Reed Smoot. the chief Senate tariff designer, was asked about revision last month during his visit to Herbert Hoover in Florida, he said: "I don't know. I haven't seen Joe yet.''